Posts Tagged ‘Polly Cleveland’
Don’t Take Away My Oxycodone!
It feels like a large splinter jammed under my left thumbnail. From my thumb and forefinger, the skin burns in a strip up to my elbow. Recent shoulder surgery has left nerve damage, not uncommon. During the day, it’s a distraction; at night, much worse. Before bedtime, I swallow two 5 mg oxycodone. At 3 ...Read more.
Pearidge, Trauma; 99 to 1; and The Self-Made Myth
The evening before Easter, well wined and dined at a fine Italian restaurant, we have returned to my mother’s house in DC. My brother and I are extracting our 92-year-old mother from his giant Chevy Tahoe. We turn, and there is my husband Tom, crumpled in the gutter, a pool of blood spreading under his ...Read more.
What Drives the War on Drugs?
First it was the Dominican limo driver, who disappeared while driving a client upstate. When my husband extracted him from Utica jail a month later, it turned out he’d been arrested on bogus drug charges, and his limo confiscated. Then it was a friend, set up for a drug bust by his ex-wife, to gain ...Read more.
D&S Panel at Left Forum
D0llars & Sense is sponsoring a panel discussion at this year’s Left Forum on the state of the banking sector. The panelists will be: Polly Cleveland of Columbia University; Rob Larson of Ivy Tech Community College; and William K. Black of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. I (D&S co-editor Chris Sturr) will moderate. ...Read more.
Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C., and more
(1) NPA Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C. From today’s Democracy Now!: Activists Shut Down Bank of America Branch in D.C. in Tax Protest In Washington, D.C., 600 activists with National People’s Action shut down a branch of Bank of America Monday to protest the bank’s record of dodging taxes. National People’s Action recently ...Read more.
NYS Assembly Hearings on Property Tax Cap
Polly Cleveland, author of our current lead article, Restore the Original Wealth Tax, testified before the New York State legislature yesterday, arguing against Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to cap property tax increases at 2% or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. See below for her testimony. Polly reported that someone from a ...Read more.
March/April issue: Tax the Rich!
I have lots of stuff to link to; I hope to get to them soon. I have been working to get the March/April issue to the printers (which happened this morning) and to get material from the new issue posted to the website (which happened just now), including our Tax and Deficits Activism Kit, which ...Read more.
Can Cyberspace Liberate Us from Earthly Space?
From Polly Cleveland: The internet, it has long seemed, frees us from the bounds of location. We can work from home. We can shop in London or Tokyo. On Skype, we can chat with friends in Sydney, Australia as if they were next door. Meanwhile, Mozy.com backs up our computers to a bank of servers ...Read more.
More on Property Taxes; More on Bill Black
(1) More from Polly Cleveland on Property Taxes: A couple of posts ago I complained about the New York Times’ coverage of deficits and taxes. The one that really steamed me reported on a NYT/CBS News poll in which a majority of people allegedly preferred cutting spending to raising taxes as a way of dealing ...Read more.
Restore the Original Wealth Tax (Polly Cleveland)
To Save Essential Public Services, Restore the Original Wealth Tax! By Polly Cleveland, on January 17th, 2011 State and local officials propose drastic cuts in public services. There’s an alternative: restore the property tax. It’s the oldest wealth tax of all, the tax that financed Chinese civilization over 2000 years ago, the tax that until ...Read more.
