The Health Insurance Opt-Out Fee
Part of the reason for all the controversy over the health care insurance reform legislation just enacted is the Democrats ongoing ineptitude with regard to framing issues. The provision in the health...
View ArticleHow The Money Changers Make Money
Big banks fleecing local governments is a growth industry today. Matt Taibbi discusses how the big money changers get away with robbing people through their local government. Taibbi starts at the 11...
View ArticleMaddow Exposes Fox News Over Acorn
And Congress should admit their mistake and restore funding to Acorn. Or does Fox News propaganda trump Congressional power? Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
View ArticleEasily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit. She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To solve this problem,...
View ArticleWA State Tax Reform Needed
I-1098 is a sensible reform getting rid of the poorly thought out B&O tax for small businesses, providing a reduction in property taxes and adding an income tax on the top 3% of income earners in...
View ArticleDeath and Taxes – This is a Great Time to Die (For Very Very Few of Us)
Two things are certain in life, death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Well Ben, you are right about life and taxes, but you are not correct about death and taxes. If you die in 2010 no matter how big a...
View ArticleWA State Investment Trust (as North Dakota)
Image via Wikipedia Friends, I hope you might know about the efforts to establish a state-level “bank” – the Washington Investment Trust – similar to what North Dakota created in 1919 as a state-owned...
View ArticleTell Congress to Help Create Jobs Not Cut Them
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View ArticleA Ray of Hope in the Coming Darkness
Image via Wikipedia It is my understanding that Barack is proposing lifting the cap on Social Security taxes and raising income taxes on upper incomes. If that becomes law, which seems at the moment...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on the State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival
Image by Andrew Rusk via Flickr “Part of the Hart House debates, Chomsky spoke at the University of Toronto on April 7, 2011 about class warfare, the State-Corporate Complex, the way in which...
View ArticleLive Stream – Starts October 6 in Portland
ABOUT OCCUPY PORTLAND, OR Occupy Portland is a nonviolent movement for accountability in the United States government. At 12PM on October 6th, 2011 we will assemble at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, 1020...
View ArticleDeclaration of the Occupation of New York City
Image via Wikipedia Sounds good to me for a start: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all...
View ArticleSecond General Assembly Meeting – Portland OR
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