“A writer’s notebook is not a diary. Writers react. Writers need a place to record these reactions. That’s what a writer’s notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don’t want to forget. A writer’s notebook gives you a place to live like a writer.” - Ralph Fletcher
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
We should be debating whether to go back to the Eisenhower tax rates of 91 percent, the Nixon tax rate of 70 percent or the Reagan tax rate of 50 percent for the top income earners—not whether secretaries and CEOs should be taxed at the same rate!
Kevin Zeese, one of the original organizers of the Occupy encampment in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
(Source: truthdig.com)
Romney would continue the pro-rich Bush tax cuts, repeal the estate tax, and then lower the federal income tax rates, including dropping the top bracket from 35% to 28%. Altogether, his proposal would reduce the tax rate of the richest 1% of taxpayers, with an average income of $1.4 million, by three times as much as the tax rate of a middle-income taxpayer, with an average income of $42,000. Those cuts would also likely slice as much as $3.4 million off Romney’s own tax bill in 2013.
John Miller
(Source: dollarsandsense.org)
If you are not willing to fight to end the sexual molestation of women and children in this society, don’t tell me you are ready to fight to end economic exploitation.
Kalamu ya Salaam — Word.
(Source: loop21.com)
When the loss of tax revenue from the rich worsens already strained government budgets, the rich press politicians to cut public services and government jobs and not even debate a return to the higher taxes the rich used to pay.
Richard Wolff, “How the rich soaked the rest of us,” Guardian, March 1, 2011
(Source: rdwolff.com)
