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24151 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >If they have no control over prices, then they >eat the tax. But if everyone is taxed at roughly the same rate, it becomes an ordinary cost, like electricity, which goes into the pricing calculation. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:42:47 PST 2004

24152 [lbo-talk] IMF under siege! -- rank: 1000

<http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_derosa&sid=aOGWO5LS9bWg> Argentina and Brazil Join Forces to Tame the IMF: David DeRosa March 26 (Bloomberg) -- In yet another affront to the authority of the International Monetary Fund, Argentina and Brazil have agreed to stand as one in future negotiations over loan conditions. The Fund is being eviscerated by two of the very countries it has staked its reputation on when it rescued them from financial collapse. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:25:44 PST 2004

24153 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Shane Mage wrote: >Almost all CIT comes from big corporations >who hold a monopoly or oligopoly (shared monopoly) >market dominance. Again, by elementary theory, these monopolists >have set their prices, wages, and supply costs at the level they >calculated to produce maximum profit. Therefore they >have very little (at best) ability to pass through a tax on >profit to their workers or consumers. If they all pay roughly the same tax, then it's part of their cost structur ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:11:18 PST 2004

24154 [lbo-talk] Re:MR website (and review of my book!) -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: > >> Speaking of the April ish of MR, it contains: >> >>> BOOK REVIEWS New Economy R.I.P. Sasha Lilley >>> >>> A review of After the New Economy by Doug Henwood. >> >> Not on the website, alas. > >took care of that, see ><http://www.monthlyreview.org/0404lilley.htm> Thanks. I always thought Sasha was very smart, and now I'm more convinced than ever! Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:04:44 PST 2004

24155 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

dks wrote: >I'm interested in seeing more of the empirical work that Max refers to about >the incidence of corporate income taxes. I'm not convinced there's a clear >consensus on the empirical side of things. Thank you. I was very skeptical of Max's claim, but I don't know the literature, so I couldn't challenge him. It makes no sense to me that capital bears 100% of the tax. I thought the CBO's compromise of assigning half to labor and half to capital had some appeal, but it's arbitra ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 16:02:35 PST 2004

24156 [lbo-talk] Zizek in Foreign Policy -- rank: 1000

Slavoj's Foreign Policy essay on Iraq has just been posted on the lacan.com site: <http://www.lacan.com/zifp.htm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 15:59:07 PST 2004

24157 [lbo-talk] moderation -- rank: 1000

A certain toxic personality has threatened to subscribe under fake names and flame the "liberals" who inhabit this list, so I've set the controls to require that new members' posts be subject to moderator approval. Once I see a sane post or two, I'll clear the moderate flag. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 15:57:27 PST 2004

24158 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> >> A minor detail: Clinton won two elections, and went out with a 60% >> approval rating. >> > >So? I don't get what this is supposed to show? Max said Clintonomics was bad politics. There's evidence to the contrary. That doesn't mean it's just or wise, of course. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 13:27:14 PST 2004

24159 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >At 12:32 PM 4/1/2004, Doug Henwood wrote: >>kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >> >>>I think you can see her point if you think about social movement >>>theories and resource mobilization. The Greens will become a locus >>>of movement resources: people, money, knowledge, expertise, >>>experience, etc. >> >>What does Ralph have to do with the Greens? I'm sorry to sound like >>a broken record (reme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 11:48:25 PST 2004

24160 [lbo-talk] MR website (and review of my book!) -- rank: 1000

Martin Paddio of Monthly Review asked me to forward this: >ps: MR's website is down as we're in the process of changing >servers. any chance you could put a notice on your list serve? >here's a temporary link for the april issue. if you can, great. >best, m > >http://user851348.wx8.registeredsite.com Speaking of the April ish of MR, it contains: >BOOK REVIEWS >New Economy R.I.P. >Sasha Lilley > >A review of After the New Economy by Doug Henwood. Not on the websit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:57:14 PST 2004

24161 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >I think you can see her point if you think about social movement >theories and resource mobilization. The Greens will become a locus >of movement resources: people, money, knowledge, expertise, >experience, etc. What does Ralph have to do with the Greens? I'm sorry to sound like a broken record (remember those?), but aren't you assuming something that needs to be proved? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:32:03 PST 2004

24162 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Why have a CIT? > >* There's good evidence that the CIT is the only progressive >component of the tax system. Sez who? Corporations are legal fictions. Either their customers, workers, or shareholders have to pay the tax ultimately. What's the evidence that shareholders rather than customers or workers pay? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:31:03 PST 2004

24163 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But if so, the logical consequence of such positions is voting for Bush >to ascertain the continuation of the smashing success of the peace >movement and make sure that Europeans & Co. stay pissed at the cowboy >attitudes of the US administration, no? Despite many kilobytes of daily agit-bombing, I've yet to see Yoshie explain how voting for Ralph promotes any serious organizational alternative to the Dems. It's a protest vote, a send 'em a message vote, ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 09:29:10 PST 2004

24164 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In this vein, some bloggers' claims ><http://www.econopundit.com/archive/2004_03_01_econopundit_archive.html#108038969080992205> >that 10 million jobs would be gained under normal circumstances are >exaggerated, though they are not completely out of the ballpark. >150,000 jobs a month for four years get you over seven million, >which is almost three-quarters of the way to ten. Getting 'normal' >might not prove to be so easy. 10 million is about ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 1 07:26:29 PST 2004

24165 [lbo-talk] Arianna out -- rank: 1000

[I thought she was pledged to support Camejo if she dropped out.] Arianna Huffington delivered the following statement on September 30, 2003. Over the last 48 hours it has become clear to me that the only way to stop a Republican takeover of our state is to vote No on the recall. Because it's also clear that I am not going to win on October 7, I am withdrawing from the race so that I can devote all my time and energy in the remaining week to defeating the recall -- and to defeating the Arnold Sc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 30 21:11:44 PDT 2003