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April 12, 2013
Here! Here! Call me unreasonable too! Sums it up nicely. Spread this around.
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/call-me-unreasonable#disqus_thread
[link:http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/call-me-unreasonable#disqus_thread|
Call Me Unreasonable
This from over at Crooks and Liars:
Call me unreasonable.
I will happily wrap myself in the mantle of being an unreasonable person as long as Washington DC elites with six- and seven-figure portfolios dare to tell me that I need to be "reasonable," while
Lifting the FICA cap is off the table;
The idea of lowering the minimum age for SSI qualification is not even discussed;
Refusing to acknowledge that austerity does not work, ever;
Not admitting that Social Security itself does not impact the deficit;
Negotiating Medicare drug prices is not part of a cost-saving package;
Cutting corporate subsidies is a non-starter;
Our top marginal tax rate is the lowest it's been since the '30s; and
Beltway denizens who cheered off-the-book wars and tax cuts, insisting that deficits don't matter, are now screaming that the deficit is the *MOST* important thing this country, over jobs, poverty, income inequality, discrimination, gun safety, and the sad fact that they are relegating more than a few grandmothers to eating catfood.
Yup, if that is what's considered "reasonable" thinking about the problems this country faces, then damn it, call me unreasonable.
Here! Here! Call me unreasonable too! Sums it up nicely. Spread this around.
http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/call-me-unreasonable#disqus_thread
[link:http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/call-me-unreasonable#disqus_thread|
January 11, 2013
Read the rest at: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/47548/how-we-can-all-make-money-like-the-billionaires
How We Can All Make Money Like the Billionaires - Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann has a good idea that I like:
When the Royal Dutch Shell Kulluk rig got stuck on the rocky shores of Alaska on New Years Eve, the people of that state paid close attention. Not just because they worried about the potential for another environmental disaster in their backyard, but because they pay close to attention to their states oil industry in general since they each make a lot of money off of it.
Alaska is unique in that it has something called the Alaska Permanent Fund. Believing that all residents of the state should profit off the resources that are naturally below their feet, Alaska takes the money that big oil corporations pay them in oil leases and royalties, invests that money, and then distributes the returns on those investments to each and every resident of the state.
It works out to between $1,000 and $2,000 dollars for every man, woman, and child in Alaska every single year. So if youre a husband and wife with two kids, you could earn as much as $8,000 at the end of the year and thats not pocket change for a working family trying to make it by during the Great Republican Recession.
Thanks to this supplemental income to each resident of Alaska, the state enjoys the third highest median income in the nation, and is also the second most equal state in the nation.
Its a system that works, and its been embraced by both Democrats and Republicans even Sarah Palin.
So why not apply it to the rest of the country?
Alaska is unique in that it has something called the Alaska Permanent Fund. Believing that all residents of the state should profit off the resources that are naturally below their feet, Alaska takes the money that big oil corporations pay them in oil leases and royalties, invests that money, and then distributes the returns on those investments to each and every resident of the state.
It works out to between $1,000 and $2,000 dollars for every man, woman, and child in Alaska every single year. So if youre a husband and wife with two kids, you could earn as much as $8,000 at the end of the year and thats not pocket change for a working family trying to make it by during the Great Republican Recession.
Thanks to this supplemental income to each resident of Alaska, the state enjoys the third highest median income in the nation, and is also the second most equal state in the nation.
Its a system that works, and its been embraced by both Democrats and Republicans even Sarah Palin.
So why not apply it to the rest of the country?
Read the rest at: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/thom-hartmann/47548/how-we-can-all-make-money-like-the-billionaires
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