Archive for July, 2006
How impressively manipulative!
On July 28, Andrew Taylor of the Associated Press reported that: Republican leaders were confident … that they can push through the House the first minimum wage increase in a decade, along with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates. A minimum wage increase is long overdue, and repeal of the estate tax would ...Read more.
More Hershey's Treasures!
I admit it, I’m one of those — I haven’t owned a television in years. And it’s been even longer since I’ve watched a game show all the way through. So, really, I’d never given any thought to the idea of what “a lifetime supply of X” would mean. If you haven’t, either, then check ...Read more.
The Wedge
July 9, 2006 “As Workers’ Pensions Wither, Those for Executives Flourish; Companies Run Up Big IOUs, Mostly Obscured, to Grant Bosses a Lucrative Benefit; The Billion-Dollar Liability.” The June 23 Wall Street Journal headline tells the story: GM and other big corporations cut pensions for the rank-and-file–complaining all the while of “legacy costs”–while they pad ...Read more.
The Short Run: Taxing the Poor and the Poorer
Taxing the Poor and the PoorerAn item from “The Short Run” in the May/June issue of Dollars & Sense. Imagine the most unfair tax you can. How about a double tax on the incomes of people who are hard-working but poor, a tax that hits them just at the moment they’re using the money to ...Read more.
NYC to NOLA: Bridges Connecting Workers
NYC to NOLA – Bridges Connecting WorkersThursday July 13 / 7pm-8:30pm Human and civil rights violations pre-date Katrina. The poverty rate in New Orleans pre-Katrina was the second highest of any urban area in the U.S., reaching an astounding thirty-seven percent. Poverty wages in New Orleans bolstered many other injustices, such as institutional racism, rampant ...Read more.
