Tag: taxes
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Wall Street Despised In Poll Showing Most Want Real Regulation
Most people interviewed in the Bloomberg National Poll say they don’t like Wall Street, banks or insurance companies and favor letting the government punish bankers who helped cause the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Landmark Legislation: Both Parties Collude to Bring US Health Scare
Amid the hype, all I have to add is that if they wanted us to get health care, they could deliver it with the same shock & awe quickness that they deliver death & destruction around the world – at a fraction of the cost! – just like Bill Hicks said…
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Lehman Collapse: What Did Geithner know & When Did He Know It?
Lehman Brothers managed to conceal from the outside world a multi-billion-dollar mess that was years in the making, according to an audit investigation released last week. But the size and scope of Lehman’s manipulative accounting has led some Wall Street critics to wonder what the New York branch of the Federal Reserve — led then…
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Econocrash Updates: Fed, Failure, Welfare & the New Ghost Towns
Massive bank failures due, says oversight panel // Obama appoints CFR/Trilateral/Fed operative to debt panel created by another executive order // IBM layoffs blamed on offshoring // American reliance on govt at all-time high // New ghost towns in West Virginia: industrial communities teeter on the edge
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Think Tank Urges UK to Cut Working Week to 21 Hours
The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said. The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork.
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econocrash updates: taxes, axes, boom & busts
oregon voters approve tax hike for corporations & rich familiesfrom nytimes: Amid recession, high unemployment and tight household budgets, voters in Oregon have agreed to raise taxes on people with higher incomes, to pay for public education and social services. One of only five states with no sales tax, Oregon has long kept its corporate…
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new world next week – jan21
https://archive.org/download/NewWorldNextWeek20100121/20100121_NewWorldNextWeek_512kb.mp4 Download Archive.org MP4 Hot on the heels of last week’s revelations about the ongoing eugenics operation, this episode further exposes the agenda of ‘global governance’ & the phony left/right political paradigm + a positive drug story – all this & so much more from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com on the New World Next Week. Story#1:…
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econocrash: debt, bank collapses & janitors
US national debt tops debt limitfrom cbsnews: The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has – at least numerically – exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill. The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting…
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kucinich: US tax dollars help fund taliban attacks
more truth bombs from the man the dems should’ve nominated… from raw replay: Ohio’s Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a strident anti-war crusader, cited a report on the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday which claims that US tax dollars used to bribe the Taliban in Afghanistan also help fund attacked “on our troops.” RAW…
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democrat proposes war tax to pay for afghanisurge
from raw replay: ABC’s Martha Raddatz reports that Rep. David Obey will propose a war tax if more troops are sent to Afghanistan. This video is from ABC’s World News, broadcast Nov. 23, 2009.
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more media/memes on legalizing & taxing marijuana
from abcnews: Not there yet, but the roundtable seemed to think that the legalization of marijuana is coming. John Podesta even suggested (in jest?) taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. The times they are a-changin’. flashback: feds to issue new medical marijuana policy
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UK Press: 2M Marched In Obamacare Protest
Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
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econocrash: fictitious, fdic, figureheads & the fed
video: trader says markets are manipulated & volumes ‘fictitious’* regulators shut down banks in florida, new jersey, ohio, oklahoma & illinois; 69 & counting for 2009*could the great recession lead to a great revolution?*video: geithner won’t rule out new taxes for middle class*obama admin won’t rule out raising taxes on middle class*”in the new world…
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econocrash: homeless, deficit, world currency & the fed under fire
“here it is, you can see it & touch it”:medvedev shows off sample coin of new ‘world currency’ at g8 more families becoming homeless, study findsfrom washington post: Louis Gill doesn’t like to turn anyone away. The director of the Bakersfield Homeless Center in California has taken to laying out cots and mattresses between the…
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drugwars: the opium afghanisurge, pot taxes & murder city mexico
video: special forces go for big busts in afghan drug warfrom danger room: In Afghanistan, it’s hard to peel apart the insurgency from the opium trade. So U.S. Special Forces are trying a different approach in their war on Afghan drugs. Forget burning down the poppy fields. For months, American and Afghan commandos have been…