Verses from Stories in Today's New York Times -- Democrats’ Plans to Tax Wealth Would Reshape U.S. Economy -- Global Trade Is Deteriorating Fast, Sapping the World’s Economy -- India Isn’t Letting a Single Onion Leave the Country.

It's time to share the wealth, you guys;

it's time to spread the jam --

so ev'rybody gets enough

 to roast a leg of lamb.

Ms. Warren and old Bernie

will squeeze blood from plutocrats,

and make 'em sorry that they ever

wore white silken spats!

When I get mine -- you betcha! --

I will dance a blithe gavotte,

and fish for carp the live-long day

upon my spacious yacht!

@arappeport  @thomaskaplan

************************************

"Buddy, can you spare a dime?" the World Bank soon will ask.

Vaults are shrinking, hollowed out just like a vacuum flask.

Economies around the globe are tanking right and left;

inflation and the stock market are playing at grand theft.

The reason for this trouble is that leaders, more or less,

think that they can make more money from a printing press.

They'll soon find out the hard way that disaster always stems

from treating their taxpayers like complacent ATMs.

@petersgoodman

**********************************************

No onions for the Afghans and no onions for Dubai;

tis enough to make a doughty Pashtun start to cry.

India is hoarding all her bulbs, and not one slice

is getting out of country for glum Pakistan to dice.

 Her neighbors are complaining, but she doesn't care a peel;

domestic onion prices must come down  -- and that's the deal!

But don't be disconcerted, Mr. Modi, if a fleet

comes demanding onions -- not the radish or the beet.

Wars are fought for lesser things, so pray do reassess  --

and curry eating peoples will your name forever bless!

@gettleman