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FLASHBACK: Watch Presidents Reagan and Obama argue for the SAME THING —...
WATCH this side-by-side video showing Presidents Reagan and Obama arguing for the exact same thing: Closing tax loopholes for the very wealthy. (via: Think Progress)
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Income inequality severely hampers economic growth, and the USA has severe...
HERE’S SOME AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM FOR YOU: did you know that income inequality in the United States is currently MORE UNEQUAL than countries like the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, and Pakistan? Ethiopia,...
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What gives #OccupyWallStreet power? The masses who want the system to work...
But this is why I’m taking Occupy Wall Street — or, perhaps more specifically, the ‘We Are The 99 Percent’ movement — seriously. There are a lot of people who are getting an unusually raw deal right...
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“I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare.” — Mitt Romney on #OccupyWallStreet
(via: The Caucus) Not coincidentally, Mittens has become a favorite of Wall Street donors. image: divineirony
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President Reagan: Socialist, class warfare advocate
“A great American said that he thought it was ‘crazy’ that certain tax loopholes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary.” — President...
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Things I have no problem with: new taxes on the wealthiest Americans
Seeking to consolidate party support for President Obama’s jobs bill, Senate Democrats are considering a proposal to impose a five percent surtax on millionaires to pay for the legislation, according...
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Meanwhile in Greece… #OccupyWallStreet #OccupyGreece
Thousands strike in Greece to protest government cuts Police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths in central Athens on Wednesday, where thousands of striking state sector workers marched against...
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For #OccupyWallStreet, an immodest proposal: forgive the debt of the 99%
So my immodest proposal is simply this: Individuals and households in the bottom 99 percent who owe debt to any large financial institution that received federal government support during and after the...
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Chicago Board of Trade has a message for #OccupyChicago #OccupyWallStreet
Image Credit: USAanon/”T”/OccupyChicago Someone at the Board of Trade is getting cheeky with the Occupy Chicago protests. This photo was taken by someone at the protests. It shows offices at the Board...
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The #OccupyWallStreet protests are not anti-capitalism
“Some of the protesters are even supporters of the ultra-capitalist Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). But the actual organizing principle of the demonstrations is to speak with moral clarity of the economic...
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#OccupyWallStreet BY THE NUMBERS: What’s actually “too big to fail”… 1% or 99%?
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka at the Take Back The American Dream summit: Trumka said of Republicans, “If they want to have a debate on class warfare, we’ll have that debate,” because “It wasn’t our...
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Real Populism vs. Corporate PR: #OccupyWallStreet vs. the Teaparty™
Excellent post on how true grassroots movements do not have wealthy and powerful sponsors like Fox “News” and corporations and the Koch brothers: Real Populism vs. Corporate PR There is one not so...
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PHOTOS: Teaparty vs. #OccupyWallStreet — WHY have the media taken one group...
Why? Photo credits: 34 portraits of people occupying Wall Street Flickr The turnout for the “Hold the Line” Teaparty rally Tumblr, Tumblr, Tumblr, and Google
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A brief discussion of taxes and income inequality: the rich pay 70% of all...
“[Obama] repeated the old half-truth about millionaires not paying as much in taxes as their secretaries. (In reality, the top 10 percent of earners pay nearly 70 percent of all income taxes, according...
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