Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
How to (Really) End This Depression: a Response to Paul Krugman
In the May 24 New York Review of Books, Paul Krugman writes, “The truth is that recovery would be almost ridiculously easy to achieve; all we need is to reverse the austerity policies of the past couple of years and temporarily boost spending.” He continues, “… The strong measures that would all go a long ...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.
John Miller at US Uncut Protest; Jonathan Rowe
1. U.S. Uncut Teach-In John Miller, D&S collective member and columnist, participated in a recent US Uncut teach-in. (Here is the article from The Nation that got people excited about starting a U.S. version of UK Uncut.) 2. Jonathan Rowe, RIP. We just found out (via D&S collective member Bryan Snyder) that Jonathan Rowe, the ...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.
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.
Regulatory Review; EconoFAQs on QE2
(1) Bill Black on Obama’s Regulatory Review: I had to chuckle at the Times’ headline about Obama’s regulatory review a couple of days ago: Obama Asks for Review of Rules Stifling Jobs. As I mentioned in my last post, the new post-Tucson civility has rendered the Republican’s phrase “job-killing” into “job-destroying”; now it has morphed ...Read more.
Senator Sanders’ Socialism (Nancy Folbre)
(1) Nancy Folbre at the New York Times’ Economix: A nice piece about Sanders’ filibuster against the tax compromise: When the rumpled, plain-spoken Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke virtually nonstop for more than eight hours on Dec. 10 to explain his opposition to tax cuts for the rich, he quickly became a YouTube and ...Read more.
Various items
(1) Emmanuel Saez wins a MacArthur fellowship. With co-author Thomas Piketty, Saez has done great research on income inequality in the United States. Read about the fellowship here. An accessible version of their research here. Who knew he was only 37? I guess younger than me no longer counts as particularly young, alas… (2) D&S ...Read more.
