in 1940 “…every dollar that individuals paid in income tax, corporations paid $1.50. If you compare that to today, here are the numbers. For every dollar that individuals pay to the federal government, corporations pay 25 cents.”
Read MoreThere is no connection between raising the debt ceiling and arguing over tax policy. Tax policy takes many years to work out. All of a sudden, Mr. Obama is going along with the charade of saying, “Wait a minute, let’s create a crisis.”
Read More“I think its important to problematize atomic power because some in the Green Movement look to it as a solution,” says Parenti. “But there is no way that this economy can create enough power from atomic energy in a cost-efficient manner in the time necessary.”
Read MoreThis is proof positive that public process does matter and that people based movements can and do make a difference. If they can do it in Wisconsin we can do it in Coos County.
Read MoreNicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
The Japanese people are now held hostage to business model that only serves utility company shareholders and leaves ratepayers dependent upon power generated hundreds of miles from the point of use.
Read MoreIn 1985 the NRC acknowledged that a severe core melt down could occur in the United States. They’ve known all along here in this country that disaster could come and with 23 plants similar in design to the Fukushima GE Mark 1 reactors a similar loss of containment is highly possible.
Read MoreEconomic nonsense is being reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute, the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles.
Read MoreEven the Wall Street Journal has come to question, at least, the dignity of corporations holding out a tin cup before agreeing to setup shop in America.
Read MoreFox News host Glenn Beck has been increasingly targeting Frances Fox Piven, a 78-year-old distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Read MoreJust as in my parents’ case, the prosecutors could seek to bully some involved into ratting out others, in return for more favorable treatment. This divide and conquer approach would turn individuals against each other, sow the seeds of distrust…
Read MoreU.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds.
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