Blaming Our Woes on Immigrants is Fake News

July 25, 2018 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

What’s happening to our country? The Supreme Court just upheld President Trump’s travel ban. The Trump administration is determined to reduce all categories of immigration, including those seeking refuge and asylum from horrible conditions in their countries. Just this quarter, the administration has separated immigrant children from parents at the border, creating a massive outcry across our country. Uniquely a country of immigrants, starting with … Continue reading Blaming Our Woes on Immigrants is Fake News »

Americans Do Care About Inequality!

January 16, 2018 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

Post originally appeared at WalkerViewPoints on 12/26/17. How do you feel when you walk through the Business Class section of the airplane on your way to crowded and uncomfortable coach seating, while privileged customers are sipping their free champagne? Do you wonder for a moment how their wealth was obtained, whether every one of them gained it fairly, without privilege of birth? I venture to … Continue reading Americans Do Care About Inequality! »

Why I Am A Patriotic Millionaire: Dale Walker

August 3, 2017 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

I spent most of my life avoiding politics, happily focusing on my family and my career…

Let’s Help President Trump Succeed: Wages

April 25, 2017 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

Donald Trump understood the justified anger of Americans living hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck. But now he has the obligation to do something about it. He also has the opportunity to create a great legacy.

What Comes Next is More Important

April 4, 2017 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

Will the voters stubbornly cling to their champion, who will undoubted tweet a litany of excuses and fictitious obstacles, others to blame?

How Much Inequality Can We Handle?

February 14, 2017 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

The United States has the highest level of income inequality in the developed world. Economists think our wealth inequality is even greater. It is inherently unfair, even immoral, for me and many others to live in opulence while millions of Americans struggle just to get enough to eat.

What is the Point?

January 13, 2017 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

First, do we acknowledge that inequality has risen to an extreme level? If yes, is there acknowledgment that this is a big problem, if it is not moderated?

Delivering on the Promise for Shared Prosperity

November 21, 2016 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

Furthermore, we allowed the strengthening of these neoliberal economic policies while globalization and technological advances accelerated the advance of inequality–in wages and in wealth. So now we have inequality which has risen to peak levels, and in the US it is worse than in any other developed country.

Populism and Trump

October 28, 2016 Dale Walker, Patriotic Millionaire

Tax cuts reduce government services which hurt workers more than the wealthy. This is a form of reverse redistribution–gains for the wealthy, net losses for the working class.