OMG ECON - Our Taxation Problem

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Thursday November 17, 2011 · 6:31 AM PST

2011/11/17 · 06:31

Here I try to lay out a proof of progressive taxation, and then expand that to a model demonstrating what a 15% taxable profit margin between productive business and financial investment has done to our economy.

Then I work on showing why the Federal Reserve should work towards inflation to help solve this, while the Federal Reserve is incapable of resolving it alone. That bit is a work in progress that I'm trying to get back to, so feel free to pitch in your thoughts!

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Wednesday November 16, 2011 · 9:00 AM PST

2011/11/16 · 09:00

The Euro is in crisis and honestly? Kind of Action packed.
It can now be argued the new measure of Eurocrisis is not Italy but France!
This is like Gingrich taking over the GOP lead, it's meaningless except in the way it colors the inevitable conclusion.

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Monday November 07, 2011 · 8:28 AM PST

2011/11/07 · 08:28

I'm here in Danbury, where local elections are coming up tomorrow, and on the ballots here all the Republicans are also running as independents!
I wonder how much money it was worth to their campaigns to have their names appear in columns other than 'Republican...'

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Monday November 07, 2011 · 7:45 AM PST

2011/11/07 · 07:45

Matt Yglesias has found two telling employment charts showing the impact of Obama's policies.
The first shows the first Obama stimulus stopped the plunging employment recession, and the second shows how the original Obama stimulus was not enough to make a recovery in total employment.

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Saturday August 13, 2011 · 9:31 AM PDT

2011/08/13 · 09:31

What I've been waiting for! Interview with one of the plaintiffs and a Human Rights Watch attorney. Gotta love DemocracyNow

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Wednesday August 10, 2011 · 9:32 AM PDT

2011/08/10 · 09:32

In addition to my earlier posted case (http://www.dailykos.com/...) there is now a second case federally approved to proceed against Rumsfled over torture at Camp Cropper

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Thursday August 04, 2011 · 8:30 AM PDT

2011/08/04 · 08:30

An American Veteran, former Marine translator held and tortured in 2006 has been allowed by a district judge to pursue his case against Donald Rumsfeld!
CAN WE MAKE AN IMPACT ON THIS CASE?

EDIT A second case is now proceeding: http://www.democracynow.org/...

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Sunday April 10, 2011 · 6:25 AM PDT

2011/04/10 · 06:25

Another incredible malignment of justice from the conservative Supreme Court majority.

I'll try to find time later to get into reading through the opinion and yelling at Justice Kennedy. Then I'll try to calm down a bit and type up some choice thoughts.

I just dread finding the same density of blatant rhetorical contradiction as the last opinion I reviewed.
I mean it was kinda fun, but it's a bad fun.

Justice Thomas is terrible at law, Justice Scalia is a criminal

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Sunday April 03, 2011 · 9:18 AM PDT

2011/04/03 · 09:18

Holy. Jeebus.

So if a DA ignores his employee's bad habit of hiding evidence to convict guys, including a particularly egregious Brady violation which requires violating law and ethics every day for 14 years under their supervision - it only counts as though it happened the one time it was caught, and obviously since it's only that one time, it was just a mixup.
IN FACT Scalia thinks it's an 'inevitability of mistakes.'

I'm not going to lay out the case, the Slate article does a good job. Instead, I'm going to get into these opinions a little bit, so pray for me - these things are corrosive to the mind and soul, and the outrage necessary to wade through them is quite exhausting.

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Tuesday March 29, 2011 · 4:29 PM PDT

2011/03/29 · 16:29

2nd biggest protest in the history of London.
The English are great, there's a brief shot of union protesters flying big red 'bolshevism' flags totally unapologetic - and why should they be? Unabashed Communism might have made its people helpless to madmen, but unabashed Capitalism makes us helpless to common thieves.

'The protests come after U.K. officials estimated corporate taxes would be reduced even as it tackles a $235 billion deficit and plans to cut more than 300,000 public sector jobs. Meanwhile, in the United States protesters gathered in 40 cities on Saturday to oppose tax cuts for the wealthy amid budget cuts to public services.'
More about U.S. Uncut plans and involvement.

Studies confirm Nuclear threat - protest the denial

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Monday March 28, 2011 · 6:28 AM PDT

2011/03/28 · 06:28

Fukushima is officially releasing 60-75% of the radiation released by Chernobyl, as detected by worldwide monitoring stations.

And in case anyone was buying the terrible revisionist statements about damage from Chernobyl, here is a recent study showing Chernobyl-based radioactive iodine continuing to cause increased cancer rates.

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Friday March 25, 2011 · 9:33 AM PDT

2011/03/25 · 09:33

Egyptian State Security archives have revealed evidence of planned and executed 'false flag' operations against protesters.

Wisconsin State Email archives have revealed an Indiana prosecutor submitting plans for 'false flag' operations against protesters, which Walker later mentioned were considered.

I mean hey, Walker DID decide against them. And he WAS elected.
And he's NOT in Egypt. So lets just keep those 3 distinctions clear...

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