According to calculations by Whitehouse’s office -- which match our own -- when you include Social Security and Medicare taxes, the effective tax rate for the wealthiest 400 Americans would have been 16.72 percent in 2007; the tax rate for a worker earning $29,000 a year would have been 16.79 percent.
PolitiFact Rhode Island | Whitehouse says richest 400 taxpayers are taxed at a lower rate than a $29,000-a-year worker
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
Congressional attacks on public media seem to come as regularly as NPR fundraising drives. Every year, as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) pleas for federal funding, some members of Congress denounce public media altogether, while others quietly vote to shave off another sliver of subsidies, rather than eliminate all funding. In the end, the CPB limps away still intact, but wounded.
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
What You Need to Know About the Assault on NPR and PBS -- In These Times
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
When it comes to improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state employees' fight over collective bargaining.
Economic 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.
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
Economic 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.
tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
What is shrinking is the reportorial component of our culture in which people go out and find things and verify things," he said. Truth has little chance to make itself known in the new narrow and shallow public square.
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators | Common Dreams
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
As they return to their districts after the budget debate, Guinta and many of his fellow Republicans are discovering that fiscal responsibility can be a tricky business. Many federal programs reside in a vast gray zone, somewhere between worthy and wasteful. And while pledging to rise above local interests can establish a candidate as a principled outsider, for a member of Congress, it's often a quick way to guarantee a short career.
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
Back home, GOP freshmen find fiscal responsibility can be tricky business
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
Let's be clear what is going on. Only three of the top 10 spenders in the most recent elections were unions. Among the others were organizations representing business interests, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and individual corporations themselves. Both corporations and unions were unleashed by the Citizens United decision.
If unions can be broken in the public sector, this will further tilt the political playing field on behalf of corporate interests and their Republican allies. This will also silence one of the few remaining vehicles that advocate on behalf of ordinary people in this country.
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
If unions can be broken in the public sector, this will further tilt the political playing field on behalf of corporate interests and their Republican allies. This will also silence one of the few remaining vehicles that advocate on behalf of ordinary people in this country.
No unions: Government by the rich, for the rich - CNN.com
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Simply the Worst -What Rummy didn’t know could fill his book. NYTimes.com
On biological weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi facilities that produce, test, fill, or store biological weapons,” the report said, adding: “We believe Iraq has 7 mobile BW agent production plants but cannot locate them ... our knowledge of how and where they are produced is probably up to 90% incomplete.”
On chemical weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi sites that produce final chemical agent.” And on ballistic missile programs they had “little missile-specific data.”
Somehow that was twisted into “a slam-dunk.” You go to war with the army you have, but the facts you want.
Simply the Worst - NYTimes.com
On chemical weapons: “We cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi sites that produce final chemical agent.” And on ballistic missile programs they had “little missile-specific data.”
Somehow that was twisted into “a slam-dunk.” You go to war with the army you have, but the facts you want.
Simply the Worst - NYTimes.com
Monday, February 14, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
We’re in the midst of a global food crisis — the second in three years. World food prices hit a record in January, driven by huge increases in the prices of wheat, corn, sugar and oils. These soaring prices have had only a modest effect on U.S. inflation, which is still low by historical standards, but they’re having a brutal impact on the world’s poor, who spend much if not most of their income on basic foodstuffs.
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
Droughts, Floods and Food - NYTimes.com
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
And for the third straight year, American families and businesses will pay less in federal taxes than they did under former President George W. Bush, thanks to a weak economy and a growing number of tax breaks for the wealthy and poor alike.
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
Taxes (As A Percentage Of Economy) Drop To Lowest Level In 60 Years
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
Glenn Beck's TV show has dropped to #5 among the top-rated cable news programs, and his viewership is 40% lower than it was a year ago. But I'm not sure it matters -- his viewership is still much greater than, say, anything in MSNBC's prime-time lineup. And as Richmond Ramsey, a writer for David Frum's Web site, noted a couple of days ago, he's making his elderly viewers monomaniacal and crazy (hat tip: Jonathan Chait):
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
Why Glenn Beck is So Dangerous: His Poison is in the System | AlterNet
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