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Comment on Tax Rates for Wealthy Americans Historically Low. by Doug Elmendorf, For The Win « Beltway Blues

Doug Elmendorf, For The Win « Beltway Blues — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:27:53 +0000

[...] taxes. That’s why I propose an increase on the tax rate for wealthy Americans. It’s now 35% At its peak, it was 91%! 91! Obama proposed increasing it to 39.6%. While I don’t think [...]

Comment on Former GOP Congressman Demands Bush Investigations by Walking Turtle

Walking Turtle — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:29:40 +0000

“The fastest way for Republicans to clear their brand is to investigate their own party and admit their own mistakes.”

Should likely instead be read as: “The fastest way for Republicans to cover their butts and emerge with one single (also handy) shite-covered scapegoat (while all the rest of the criminal krue walks free to wreak more damage on us all Another Day) is to self-investigate their own party and admit exactly as few as might be thought exactly politically expedient of their own criminally mis- and mal-feasant deeds from Reagan forward.”

That is why an Independent Prosecutor is an utter necessity. Three stolen elections and Heaven known how much blackmail and bribery on the way to Official US State-Sponsored Torture cry out the case for the SP instead of these clowns EVER being allowed to let themselves AND their complicit Gem counterparts and enablers off 5he hook of Dame Justices’ Everlasting Balance.

As many did indeed observe at the time, The Balance was shifted entirely off center while the crim-shills swore before us all that the Playing Field was being “levelled”. That entirely destructive thuggery is why the balance did not hold and she’s off the peg on the ground now, my Republican-duped friends. What a vicious pun, substituting a species of Political Controlled Demolition’s “Levelling Effect” for the honest use of honest tools of sociopolitical construction and verification!

“Levelling” indeed. Pah. Self-investigation? PAH! Special Prosecutor all the way up the line to the top with FULL DISCLOSURE and NOTHING REDACTED – or I, for one, shall believe not one more word of it.

I think it is past time we all learned to eschew the crimijnal US while embracing America the Republic. Once the “Republicans” that forced the criminality (and their Dem pals) are caught and exposed aright, folks a-waking up and Just Doing that’ll have a MUCH easier time imvho.

Nice feelgood wrapup for those who surf in their sleep, though, again imvho.

Comment on New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit by Carol Crooks

Carol Crooks — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:37:31 +0000

See Robert Freeman’s article :
Published on Monday, August 24, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/24
The Debilitating Myth of the ‘Free Market’ Alternative by Robert Freeman

Comment on Does Offshore Drilling Constrain the Renewables Supply Chain? by Wesymotousy

Wesymotousy — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:54:10 +0000

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Comment on The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino by » The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino

» The Credit Card Debt Crisis: The Next Economic Domino — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:50:55 +0000

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Comment on Eliminate corporate tax credits. by sander hicks

sander hicks — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:16:17 +0000

“…Instead of thinking about government handouts, let’s reframe the argument: What if the U.S. federal government started thinking of itself as an investor, instead of as a reluctant donor? Instead of a handout, the USG should expect a return (either social or financial) on whatever money it puts into a venture. So, a new program should be started, the U.S. Social Ventures Administration (USSVA)…”

excerpt from: http://www.alternet.org/workplace/110406/
Let’s Cut Out the Banks and Finance American Innovation
By Sander Hicks, AlterNet. Posted December 12, 2008.

Comment on Big Oil should bail out Auto Industry by Bob B.

Bob B. — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:15:42 +0000

I see some sense in oil companies funding the US auto industry bailout program. Since the oil companies are unlikely to volunteer funding anything, I’m guessing there are plenty of tax credits currently granted the oil industry that could be eliminted to generate the $25B for the auto industry.

Comment on How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Environment and nature » Blog Archive » How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:26:38 +0000

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Comment on Five Mistakes by DC and Detroit Hurt Detroit Three’s Survival Shances by zrants

zrants — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:40:23 +0000

Randi Rhodes suggested “Allow workers and retirees to be the first to buy into a National Healthcare Fund subsidizing them if needed.”

Why not make them the guinea pig for a National Health program? They can tweak the program for the autoworkers until they get it right before attempting to roll it out on a national scale.

Comment on MYTH BUSTER: ABSENTEE VOTING by zrants

zrants — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:05:25 +0000

Thanks for the information. Supposedly 20% of the voters in the SF Bay Area where I live are voting by mail. We had early voting and still expect huge crowds of people to line up to vote on November 4. I am working the polls this year so I will get a very clear picture of how the system functions. With record-breaking numbers of voters it is hard to see how everyone could vote on election day if they chose to. Let’s hope everything runs smoothly. – Z