tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post1110891166280333813..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: "Tax The Rich! Tax The Rich!"reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-74638379687102015142011-02-21T11:12:47.581-05:002011-02-21T11:12:47.581-05:00Question to Noam Chomsky on Democrat political sup...Question to Noam Chomsky on Democrat political support for public sector workers:<br /><br />http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20110217.htm<br /><br />"So my question to you is, how exactly is it that we can get the attention of our national Democratic and progressive leaders to speak out against these measures and to help end union busting here in the United States? <br /><br />AMY GOODMAN: That was a question from Ryan Adserias in Madison, Wisconsin, where more than 10,000—some say tens of thousands of people, teachers, students, are protesting in the Capitol building, schools closed, as Ryan said. So, from Manama to Madison, from Manama, Bahrain, to Madison, Wisconsin, Noam Chomsky? <br /><br />NOAM CHOMSKY: It’s very interesting. The reason why you can’t get Democratic leaders to join is because they agree. They are also trying to destroy the unions. In fact, if you take a look at—take, say, the lame-duck session. The great achievement in the lame-duck session for which Obama is greatly praised by Democratic Party leaders is that they achieved bipartisan agreement on several measures. The most important one was the tax cut. And the issue in the tax cut—there was only one issue—should there be a tax cut for the very rich? The population was overwhelmingly against it, I think about two to one. There wasn’t even a discussion of it, they just gave it away. And the very same time, the less noticed was that Obama declared a tax increase for federal workers. Now, it wasn’t called a "tax increase"; it’s called a "freeze." But if you think for 30 seconds, a freeze on pay for a federal workers is fiscally identical to a tax increase for federal workers. And when you extend it for five years, as he said later, that means a decrease, because of population growth, inflation and so on. So he basically declared an increase in taxes for federal workers at the same time that there’s a tax decrease for the very rich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-61779155219796913822011-02-21T11:09:31.535-05:002011-02-21T11:09:31.535-05:00RBE:
While I am a moderate, I think that eliminat...RBE:<br /><br />While I am a moderate, I think that eliminating the tax surcharge next year is irresponsible and needs to be extended until the State is out of the recession.Chazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09964739497720364749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-49913467082139898122011-02-21T10:24:19.924-05:002011-02-21T10:24:19.924-05:00I like it...
"Tax the Rich!"
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&quo...I like it...<br /><br />"Tax the Rich!"<br /><br />and<br /><br />"Fox Lies!"<br /><br />I hope people show up this Thursday for the rally at NY's City hall.<br /><br />The media has to cover these events more and more. These protests need to go nationwide.Poguenoreply@blogger.com