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31666 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Actually, public goods associated with automobile transportation - roads, >traffic control, police protection, safety testing, etc. are already >financed by government i.e. general taxes. The only difference is the >point of collection, gasoline tax is collected at the pump while general >taxes - from your mortgage payments or paychecks. >Given the mildly progressive nature of our tax system and essentially >regressive nature of gasoline tax - this ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 14:16:40 PDT 2001

31667 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: > >>>Onward to $5 a gallon! >> >>>God bless the free market!!!! > >>Actually, I was thinking taxes. > >Eek. Why? C'mon, you know the answer. Because the cost of gasoline in the U.S. is way too low, considering its health, environmental, and spatial consequences (i.e., sprawl). Doug

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Date:	Wed May 2 13:07:51 PDT 2001

31668 Fwd: FW: PENN STATE HATE MURDER -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] X-From_: LTurner at datacenter.org Wed May 2 13:26:07 2001 From: Liza Turner <LTurner at datacenter.org> To: 'owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com' <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: FW: PENN STATE HATE MURDER Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:20:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 -----Original Message----- From: Liza Turner Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:23 AM To: 'apiactivists at yahoogroups.com' Subject: PENN STATE HATE MURDER This is unrea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 11:29:51 PDT 2001

31669 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: > >Onward to $5 a gallon! > >God bless the free market!!!! Actually, I was thinking taxes. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 2 11:25:11 PDT 2001

31670 Loyalty and Law Day (Re: The origins of May Day) -- rank: 1000

Leung, H Curtiss [IT] wrote: >Plus ca change, plus ca meme chose: >http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0005/0013.html >http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0005/0014.html There are some differences. Clinton: >Other Americans have showed their loyalty by courageously challenging >our Nation to live up to its ideals. We owe a profound debt to the >heroes and visionaries who opposed slavery, reformed labor practices, >won the right to vote for women, marched for civil rights, and spoke &g ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 09:49:35 PDT 2001

31671 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: >The companies that make gas station price signs are reporting sales of signs >for $2 a gallon gas AND $3 a gallon gas.. > >--- >"It's sad to say, but true," said Stanis. Chevron's request is the "first >we've seen" of calls for a "three-point," or a number three followed by a >decimal point, which would form the front portion of the nation's >highest-ever gasoline prices. > >Wagner Zip-Change Inc. and several other co ...

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Date:	Wed May 2 06:36:40 PDT 2001

31672 MM on W -- rank: 1000

Mike's Message Why Don't We All Just Cut the Crap Right Now 5/1/2001 http://www.michaelmoore.com/2001_0501.html Dear friends, Well, 101 days into the Junta and the fear mongers are having a heyday, aren't they? Even good liberals and Democrats have joined in the mantra. To listen to them, you'd think George W. Bush had opened the gates of hell and unleashed the legions of Satan upon the American people. These good people actually believe Junior has put the arsenic back in the water, given the go ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 15:13:35 PDT 2001

31673 The origins of May Day -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >BTW, what is the history behing the 'labor day' in this country. A >government bureacrat fiat? > >Another issue, has anyone thought of the idea of reparations to labor for >miscarriages of justice by agents of this state? THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Immediate Release April 25, 2001 LOYALTY DAY, 2001 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIC ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 14:50:08 PDT 2001

31674 WB? no, thanks! -- rank: 1000

From: "Patrick Bond" <Patrick.Bond at brain.sn.apc.org> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:38:47 +0000 > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:30:30 -0400 > From: Chuck0 <chuck at tao.ca> > > >If we got > > >rid of the World Bank, what sort of alternative should there be, if any? Has the reply by Susan George been reported: What alternative do you want for cancer? More seriously, several African economists are engaged in interesting debate over what ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 12:49:28 PDT 2001

31675 Monbiot -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Patrick Bond" <Patrick.Bond at brain.sn.apc.org> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 21:38:41 +0000 > To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> > Monbiot suggests > >If we are to reverse world trade treaties, however, first we must seek to > >democratise global decision-making. Perhaps we should envisage a world > >parliament, rather like the European parliamen ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 12:39:20 PDT 2001

31676 QueerTheory.com (fwd) -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:05:11 -0700 From: pnardi at BERNARD.PITZER.EDU My name is Danne Polk, and I am the director of QueerTheory.com. I'm writing to bring to your attention this new website devoted to Queer Theory, LGBT Studies, Gender Studies and all related fields: http://www.queertheory.com QueerTheory.com is organized around several related categories: Academics, Arts, Bodies, Cultures, Histories, Identities, Politics, Relations, Theories, etc. Already recognized by the Scout Report (fr ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 12:30:09 PDT 2001

31677 US economy may have bottomed out -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, John Mage wrote: > >> The Christian Science Monitor piece said that consumers were putting off >> big purchases in the first quarter > >But that seems to have turned out not to be true according to the figures >released on Friday. Along with the news that GDP grew by 2% in the first >quarter was the finding that consumers markedly increased their purchased >of homes, cars and durables to take advantage of lower rates ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 08:38:00 PDT 2001

31678 RES: Question to Doug -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: > >In the Third world we use US$2,00/day (poverty) and US$1,00/day (misery). >>Are those data adjusted for the dollar devaluation that occurs along >>time or are raw data? > >I'm pretty sure these are PPP measures. > >-Thank you for your your answers, but maybe I didnīt formulate well the >Third >-question. Althought this data for Third world is PPP, the purchase power >-of the dollar itself devaluates each year. So, when I compare ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 09:02:57 PDT 2001

31679 Bush's tax cuts -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010501.asp> POLL RELEASES May 1, 2001 No Change in Public Opinion on Desirability of Tax Cuts But expectations of achieving a tax cut have risen by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted last week shows little change in the public's support for a tax cut over the past four months, although expectations that a cut will be enacted appear to have risen. The good news for President Bush is that this cente ...

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31680 Question to Doug -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >I was reviewing your posts and your pages on poverty in USA. The poverty >income in USA is defined as income inferior to U$S 350,00/month for a >single person. According to you, this is equivalent to the 90th percentile >of world income. Are those data adjusted for PPP (Purchase parity power?) They're PPP, and come from World Bank economist Branko Milanovic. >The criteria in Europe is less than 1/2 of the median income (they use >median income or mean ...

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Date:	Tue May 1 07:41:37 PDT 2001