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President’s Deficit Commission Slashes Taxes For Wealthy, Corporations, While Raising Retirement Age And Cutting Spending
By Ryan Grim HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON — The president’s deficit commission report, scheduled for a vote by the full panel on Friday, proposes to slash tax rates for corporations and for high earners. The top tax rate is currently 35 … Continue reading
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Wall Street Excess Is Back
HUFFINGTON POST Wall Street bankers hiring a dwarf for an over-the-top bachelor party in Miami. Nieman Marcus selling out its 100 limited-edition $75,000 Camaros in three minutes. Socialites dropping $40,000 on a custom cellphone at a jewelry store in Chicago. … Continue reading
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Cornel West: The Obama and Bush Administrations – Very Little Concern For The Poor
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The Billionaires Want More, More, More
By Senator Bernie Sanders HUFFINGTON POST The billionaires are on the warpath. They want more, more, more. In 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income — more than … Continue reading
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Are We Living In The End Times?
Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher and cultural critic speaks to Riz Khan on Al Jazeera about the collapse of society and the failure of capitalism.
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Will Sit / Lie Stand?
Check out this map that allows us to see which neighborhoods voted in favor of Prop L, the Sit-Lie Law. People in the Haight voted NO, even though perception is that the proposition was generated from that neighborhood. This was … Continue reading
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Creative Capitalism
Bill Gates discusses “Creative Capitalism” as an alternative to Capitalism: Example of “Creative Capitalism” in action:
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Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich?
By FRANK RICH THE NEW YORK TIMES IN the aftermath of the Great Democratic Shellacking of 2010, one election night subplot quickly receded into the footnotes: the drubbing received by very wealthy Americans, most of them Republican, who tried to … Continue reading
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