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We need a Financial Transaction Tax 0

We need a Financial Transaction Tax

RootsAction is reporting: News from France: Conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy announced this weekend that he would take the lead in introducing a Financial Transaction Tax in his country. Referring to the tax as a...

National Popular Vote:  WA State Legislators on board? 0

National Popular Vote: WA State Legislators on board?

If state legislatures from enough states agree, we can do away with the Electoral College and elect presidents by popular vote — thus avoiding the pernicious concentration of electioneering in swing states, as well...

Burn ban ignored 0

Burn ban ignored

There’s a burn ban in effect in much of the Puget Sound area (http://www.pscleanair.org/airq/burnban/default.aspx), but many of my neighbors ignore it. Often the air is thick with smoke that burns my eyes. So much...

Get the Money Out of Politics: Jan 20 & 21, Seattle 0

Get the Money Out of Politics: Jan 20 & 21, Seattle

Get The Money Out Of Politics Two Days of Action and Education Move To Amend – Occupies The Courts – Friday People Ignited Against Citizens United – Saturday January 20 & 21 in Downtown...

Fortune criticizes Romney on tax rates 0

Fortune criticizes Romney on tax rates

The Jan 12, 2012 edition of Fortune has this to say about Mitt Romney: The last thing Romney is concerned about is income inequality. “I want to make everybody richer,” he says. “I don’t...