This page collects annotated links to similar efforts, and to arguments that have a bearing on the Fundamental Principle.

Use the comments to suggest new links and provide some initial annotation.

Paul Krugman on How Incomes Became So Unequal Today

YouTube video. Concluding factoid: In 2006 the highest paid hedge fund manager in NYC made more than all 80,000 NY schoolteachers combined – for the next three years.

The L-Curve: A Graph of the US Income Distribution

Provides a graph that concretely visualizes the amazing concentration of income in the top 1%, as well as arguments in favor of greater income equality.

There’s also a YouTube version.

Why Tax the Rich? Efficiency, Equity, and Progressive Taxation

Excellent if academic 2002 Yale Law Review book review of Does Atlas Shrug? The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich. Critiques “the abdication of equity in favor of efficiency by most legal tax academics.” And equity – fairness – is key to the founding principle of the 99% of Americans movement.

Tax the Rich: Figuring out ways to finance health care reform

2009 Forbes column that gives a good idea of how vacuous the opposition’s arguments are. Merely states “Of course, raising tax rates is never a good idea” without giving any justification for it. Quotes a liberal as saying “It also undermines the notion that taxes are the price we all pay for civilized society, not just the price that some other (rich) guy has to pay” – which makes no sense. Shouldn’t the rich pay more, since they benefit more from the wealth civilized society allows them to enjoy in relative peace?