How Dems Ross Hunter and Suzan DelBene helped Microsoft avoid taxes

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

“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…

Area Retirees Take to the Streets: No Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security!

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…

Chicken-Hawks, NRA, drive GOP agenda of fear, anger

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…