Low Pay Causes Loss of Democracy & Immigrant Need

ANALYSIS and OPINION: Company CEO’s and Oligarchs want to maximize profits for themselves and for stockholders.  They keep wages as low as possible.  The consequence of this over the last 70 years has been the rich have gotten richer and the wages of workers have stayed relatively low.  This contributed greatly to the fact that Read More …

HOW TO FIX SOCIAL SECURITY & IMMIGRATION Amended

  [ANALYSIS and OPINION] [Preliminary Note 3/26/26:  About a year after this blog post was published Senator Whitehouse (D-RI.) made a very sensible proposal, that naturally called for higher taxes on the earnings of wealthy individuals to help fund the social security solvency crises which by March 2026 was estimated to occur in 2032.  That Read More …

HOW TO FIX SOCIAL SECURITY & IMMIGRATION

  [OPINION and ANALYSIS.]   [Author’s Note:  CAUTION:  The following is the result of a series of prompts (commands)  to ChatGPT 4.5 and GPT Plus over a period of several days.  We have not actually run (calculated) these numbers at reasonandbalance.com and thus make no guarantees as to their accurateness.  Chat and AI sometimes make Read More …