Washington Liberals

According to the well-documented article Microsoft Wins Nevada Royalty Tax Cut and Tax Amnesty; Reports Record Revenue, in 2010 the Washington State legislature gave Microsoft an effective $100 million annual tax cut by revising the definition of the royalty tax. …It also gave Microsoft amnesty on an estimated $1.25 billion in unpaid taxes, interest and…

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another…” Gustav Landauer Have to pack and set up the Really Really Free Market in Olympia.  Contracting other relationships, behaving differently toward one another?  Can we really destroy…

Seattle — To mark the 47th birthday of Medicare and Medicaid, area retirees with the Washington Alliance for Retired Americans, Physicians for a National Health Program, and allies, celebrated in full force in downtown Seattle on Saturday, July 28, 2012 from Noon-2:00 with a sidewalk parade from Seattle Center, through Pike Place Market, to Victor…

We have to take the profit motive out of providing health care. Insurance companies are corporations required by law to produce maximum return on investment for their shareholders. This leads to excluding people with pre-existing conditions, failure to provide health care for low-income children and their families, and lifetime caps on coverage that cut off…

Does the Second Amendment guarantee our right to kill? GOP plays on fear disguised as freedom. Image credit:  http://ladilex123.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/gun-violence.jpg At least a dozen people shot dead in the Colorado slaughter, and the RepubliCorp Party remains eerily silent on the issue of gun violence in America. Worse yet, most Republican lawmakers continue to kowtow to the…

Peace Action reports that House Roll Call No. 495, an amendment that effectively freezes military spending at this year’s level, passed the House with bipartisan support. Reps. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) and Barney Frank (D-MA)’ amendment cuts $1.1 billion from the 2013 Pentagon budget All Washington State Democrats supported the amendment, as did one Republican. Freezing…

Ok, a little more on the judge races. And specifically on the question of how to figure out who is really qualified to sit on the bench. The table below is from VotingForJudges.org.  VFJ does not do a rating, it simply compiles and attempts to present an unbiased presentation of the judge races.  All of…

Economist and Co-Founder of The Center for Economic and Policy Research Dean Baker has released a free, online edition of his book The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive “Progressives need a fundamentally new approach to politics. They have been losing not just because conservatives have so much more money and power, but also…

Mitt Romney’s Bankster Ball “Mitt Romney will show his true colors tonight, when he slips behind closed doors in a foreign capital to collect money from international bankers who are mired in scandal.”

Rocky Anderson – Justice Party Presidential Candidate 2012 Cornel West – American philosopher, author, critic, and civil rights activist Barbara Ehrenreich – American feminist, democratic socialist, and political activist Stan Veuger – Economist, American Enterprise Institute  This meeting of great minds on the issue of American poverty promises to be enlightening. Watch live at: http://www.aljazeera.com/watch_now/ Saturday July 28, 2012 12:30am PDT/1:30am MDT/2:30am…