The week’s New Yorker has an article “Tax Time: why we pay” by Jill Leopre. The article decries the failure of liberals to defend taxation. Here’s some history about the 1920s anti-tax efforts of Andrew Mellon and other rich people. “The American Bankers League renamed itself the American Taxpayers League, and began sponsoring, providing literature…
According to the following video, a researcher has discovered that a cheap, out-of-patent drug shows great promise for curing cancers, but because no drug company can make money selling it, they won’t invest in the research needed to undertake clinical testing. This is yet another example of why government spending for the common good can…
Actually, corporations in cahoots with government are the problem. The solution isn’t to minimize government or turn to anarchy. The solution is to fix the system by electing progressive candidates and implementing progressive policies.
Conservatives love to hate government and taxes. They love to promote “liberty” and “freedom.” Yeah, in the same way that criminals like liberty: to cheat, steal, etc.
Brave New Foundation reports: “From 2009 to 2011, 70 percent of retiring three- and four-star generals and admirals left the Pentagon to cash in off jobs with contractors and consulting firms, using their knowledge of the Pentagon and Capitol Hill to reap their own immense profits from public coffers.” Read the report Strategic Maneuvers.
On January 5, 2012, the Washington Supreme Court ruled: “We affirm the trial court’s declaratory ruling and hold that the State has not complied with its Article IX, section 1 duty to make ample provision for the education of all children in Washington.” (Summary of Supreme Court’s McCleary v. State Decision) Governor Christine Gregoire has…
From: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four
It’s fun to see what whacko conspiracy theory the right wing comes up with. (Same for the far left, I suppose.) Here’s one that’s making the rounds. I saw it on a conservative email list I monitor. According to sources in the State Department and the CIA, and intercepted communications from the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama…
Stand Strong. Add your name here: http://bit.ly/WipgS1 But the Tea Party contingent is even worse than Boehner.
Having won re-election thanks to the strenuous efforts of millions of Democrats and progressives, President Obama is now freed from the pressures of campaigning. I fear that he will do what he really wants to do:Â serve the interests of Wall Street and the military-industrial complex. Last year he volunteered to cut Social Security and…