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The 47% pay their fair share. Period.
Click for larger image: NOTE: purple area shows payroll taxes and green area shows corporate taxes. See how that’s worked out really, really well for the 1% and not so much for the rest of us? CHART OF...
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How the 1 percent profited from the decline of unions — and income inequality...
Think Progress: This evening, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) will give a speech at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business about how to address income inequality, likely...
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Full employment: the bourgeoisie hates it because it strengthens the working...
“Full employment is no small demand to make. The bourgeoisie hates it, because it would strengthen the bargaining power of the working class. It, plus the other planks of an expanded welfare state...
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OWS: Students should just get 3 jobs to pay for college instead of depending...
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) says students should just get 3 jobs to pay for college instead of using Pell Grants Tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations? That’s a-ok! Why are...
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Banks profit outside a free market economy #ows
The Free-Market Case Against The Big Banks — Tim Carney advances it: These banks’ credit is rated higher than they would be in a free market, meaning they profit from the expectation of a bailout, if...
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The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, earns more income than the...
And this bleak income disparity isn’t going to turn around anytime soon: With the top one percent of the population now owning more wealth than the bottom 90% [and the top one percent earns more income...
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November 2: General Strike! OccupyOakland OWS
via: paxamericana @occupyoakland — Occupy OaklandBREAKING NEWS: #SEIU Local 1021, the biggest union in Oakland, just joined Wednesdays #GeneralStrike They’re callin workers into the street! IT’S FOR...
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Morning! Awesome photo: Taking the port at #OccupyOakland
Taking the port #OccupyOakland image: twitpic via: utmb The @PortofOakland has released an update about the shut down… on Twitpic
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Labor unions built the American middle-class lifestyle and their decline will...
Source: anticapitalist Our country and its middle-class hasn’t been the same since the GOP demonized and busted up the unions. You know who has profited since unions were busted? The one-percent. Take...
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Chris Hedges: our elites have nothing to offer
“Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot...
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Tim Dickinson, who wrote “How the GOP became the party of the rich” was on...
Tim Dickinson, who wrote How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich, from the November 24, 2011 edition of Rolling Stone, was the guest on NPR’s Fresh Air today. You might want to listen… (audio link)...
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Here’s the problem with Congress and millionaires
image: leftish From OpenSecrets.org: About 47 percent of Congress, or 250* current members of Congress, are millionaires, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics of lawmakers’...
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Meanwhile in the United Kingdom: anti-austerity protests / strike
occupywallstreet: Today, more than two million public sector workers across the United Kingdom are on the picket lines, protesting planned cuts to their pensions and austerity measures. The strike...
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