“Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age – Jackson, Wyo., has long been a refuge for the rich. But the last five years saw a boom in wealth of a kind never before seen. Across the country, the 2017 tax cuts minted hundreds of new billionaires.”
Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-jackson-teton-wyoming.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.vPa_.siT-RY4bGQrT&smid=url-share
“5 Takeaways on America’s Boom in Billionaires – The number of billionaires in the United States has soared, with nowhere feeling the effects quite like Jackson, Wyo. Here’s where all that money came from.
Free link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/billionaire-boom-takeaways.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.QOlE.6E1ULxX3yCfj&smid=url-share
Let’s be clear… The odds of you reading both of these articles from beginning to end are low. However, if you skim them you’ll get the point… Billionaires have changed the economic and cultural landscape in Wyoming, using their money to change laws and…
Furthermore, it was Trump’s tax cuts in 2017 which allowed a great run-up in wealth, creating new billionaires.
Now I know a war is going on in Iran, which is unfathomable if you lived through the sixties…
“And I got fury in my soul
Fury’s gonna take me to the glory goal
In my mind I can’t study war no more
Save the people! Save the children! Save the country, save the country now!”
That’s the power of music, that one Laura Nyro line has played in my brain continuously for over fifty years… Yup, we thought war was on the way out, but now we have an unstable situation in Venezuela, Cuba is teetering, and the Middle East is in flames. I don’t even want to bother with right and wrong, I’ll just say in this case it’s overwhelming. We thought when the wall fell and the U.S.S.R. fell apart a new era of world peace was being ushered in, but that was not the case.
Anyway, whenever I say anything negative about Trump and his policies, I hear from his people claiming TDS, i.e. Trump Derangement Syndrome. Other than the billionaires themselves, I want said MAGA-ites to read these two articles and defend the minting of these billionaires, their increasing wealth and how they’re tilting the playing field of America. Yup, the rank and file Trumpsters…tell me again how this is benefiting you?
You see too many have their heads in a hole. Or get their news from biased sources. They’ve got no idea what is truly going on, isn’t that what Marjorie Taylor Greene said?
I read the “Wall Street Journal,” which is surprisingly anti-Trump in many instances, which is a conundrum, because Fox News often takes an opposite stance even though both are owned by Murdoch. And the “Washington Post,” which not only fired a ton of people but has definitely slid to the right…you can tell by its editorials, the paper’s opinion. And, the mauled “New York Times,” which might end up being the only news outlet standing up to the Trump regime after Paramount swallows CNN, never mind what it’s already done at CBS. As for Bari Weiss… You know she got her job, created the “Free Press” and vaulted into the mainstream by catering to the monied class, kissing its ass and carrying its water. Read this article:
“L.A. Woman – Bari Weiss left New York five years ago under a cloud of infamy. Her exile in Hollywood paved the way for a triumphant return.”
https://apple.news/ABwYAe3IBTL6_rbA9v9zPkQ
That link is to the Apple News. You believed that old saw that information wants to be free, but the other half of that statement, that was rarely included, is that it also wants to be very expensive. Apple News+ is only $12.99 a month. Is that too much for you? Seems for many it is.
So they rely on obscure websites and Facebook and friends, and I won’t say that every website is bogus, or wrong, but none of them have the newsgathering capability of the Big 3, and the “New York Times” has the most…but many won’t read it because they think it’s full of TDS or it’s not left enough. But you’ve got to start with the facts.
