Category: 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
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81% Support Higher Taxes for Rich, 68% Support Eliminating Bush Tax Cuts, 74% Support Cutting Oil Subsidies, 77% Support Public Unions Bargaining
YouTube – Wisconsin Republicans Getting Desperate. Is the End in Sight? (Mar 2, 2011 – msnbc)
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Gov Walker's Bill Includes Privatizing Everything and Screwing the Poor
Krugman takes a closer look: What’s happening in Wisconsin is, instead, a power grab — an attempt to exploit the fiscal crisis to destroy the last major counterweight to the political power of corporations and the wealthy. … For example, the bill includes language that would allow officials appointed by the governor to make sweeping cuts […]
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American Shame
Comparing unemployment, income inequality, democracy, food supply, life expectancy, prison population and student performance. New York Times
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Rehabbing Robber Barons
Also from Alternet: The overarching task of the conservative historian is to rehabilitate the image of capitalism, even at its most red-toothed and -clawed. Not a hard job, as both our history and culture ceaselessly celebrate the innovative dynamism of American business. But one of the rare areas in which history teachers are allowed to […]
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Schwarzenegger Orders Minimum Wage for State Workers (Except Himself)
Tighter and tighter: The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. The instructions from the Department of Personnel Administration exclude roughly 37,000 state workers in six bargaining units that recently came to […]
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Millionaires vs the Unemployed
From Yglesias: Temporarily cutting taxes on the children of multi-millionaires would have a minor stimulative effect. But it’s not well-targeted, and the effort to reduce taxes on the kids of multi-millionaires is about permanent tax cuts anyway, which don’t stimulate anything. Yet the very same Senators who said deficit concerns wouldn’t allow them to vote […]