Category: 9. Corporate Power is Protected
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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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How GE, Exxon Mobil, Citibank, Bank of America, Boeing and Wells Fargo Dodge Taxes
From ThinkProgress: Carl Gibson, the founder of US Uncut, which is organizing some of today’s UK-inspired massive demonstrations against tax dodgers, explains that while ordinary Americans are being asked to sacrifice, major corporations continue to use the rigged tax code to avoid paying any federal taxes at all. As he says, if you have “one […]
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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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2007 Obama on Collective Bargaining
Back in 2007: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I’ll will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that […]
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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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How to Afford 300,000 Teachers
$5 billion in takehome: Last year, America’s top thirteen hedge-fund managers earned an average of $1 billion each. One of them took home $5 billion. Much of their income is taxed as capital gains – at 15 percent – due to a tax loophole that Republican members of Congress have steadfastly guarded. If the earnings of […]
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WI Protesters Chant 'Fox Lies!' on Fox Financial News
YouTube – FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! FOX LIES! Wisconsin Protester.
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Bonuses
Commenter on Metafilter re: the protests in WI: We can’t rescind wall street bonuses, because they were part of previously agreed-on contracts! We can break previously agreed-on union contracts, because everyone’s got to share the pain, right? via Public Workers Protest in Madison
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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 […]