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Top 10 Reasons for Higher Taxes on the Top 1% | "Funding for our country's children is being cut, but we allow a hedge fund manager to make enough money to pay the salaries of every public school teacher in New York City. Most of his earnings are taxed at a rate less than that of his secretary." (commondreams.org)
"The right wing will tie Obama so firmly to the crisis that people will forget it exploded during the reign of market fundamentalist George Bush. Allowing the economy to implode in order to be ideologically correct will invite an even greater repudiation from an economically insecure population." (fpif.org)
The policy that Germany has got most right is the one of subsidising employers to keep workers on the job at reduced hours. This could save millions of jobs in the United States, if only we had some political leadership with the courage to take these modest but obvious steps. (guardian.co.uk)
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the most ‘radical speech’ an American ex-President has ever delivered. | We need to “destroy privilege.” Ruin for our democracy, Roosevelt warned, will be “inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few.” (commondreams.org)
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"There is a growing movement to amend the U.S. Constitution, to strip corporations of the legal status of “personhood,” the concept that corporations have the same rights as regular people. This would subject corporations to the same oversight that existed for the first 100 years of U.S. history." (truthdig.com)
Wall Street lobbyists are presently mounting a furious blitz on the rule-writing regulators, still trying to weaken or even kill many of the reform ideas passed by Congress. The financial giants have hired away nearly 150 regulators, luring them with fat salaries to become industry lobbyists. (creators.com)
"Finance capital is, at this stage of the system's decline, incapable of reproducing itself through productive investment. Since Wall Street over the decades has already broken up, consumed and exported much of the U.S. productive economy, that leaves the State and all of its parts." (blackagendareport.com)
"Air-conditioning's proven benefits as a public-health measure during severe heat waves do not justify its lavish use throughout everyday life, for months at a stretch. Several lines of research indicate that reducing our dependence on chilled air could improve our quality of life."
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