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32551 tax cuts -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >Twice today on NPR I've heard someone (two different someones, I think) >coming on to say that: >1. When taxes were cut under Reagan, tax revenues increased >2. In every case where taxes were cut, revenues increased > >It seems to me that these statements can't be true (unless the numbers are >jiggered somehow). Are they? Revenues increased in the sense that nominal dollar receipts were higher in 1983 than 1982, and 1984 than 1983, and so on. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 11:37:10 PST 2001

32552 more tax cut questions- bush speech -- rank: 1000

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: >bush tonight says a waitress with two kids making $25,000 - if she tries to >better her situation, every dollar she makes over $25,000 is taxed at 50% - >sending the awful message - "you can't get ahead." > >can this be true? No. No one is in a 50% federal tax bracket. The highest marginal rate is 39%, and that's well beyond the point where you pay SS taxes. Did he really say that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 06:39:29 PST 2001

32553 BK on "identity" -- rank: 1000

On Patrick Bond's urging, I picked up a copy of Boris Kagarlitsky's trilogy, published by Pluto. In The Return of Radicalism, we learn (just after an approving quote from Todd Gitlin): "All identity is social, but class is the quintessence of the social. Unlike race, sex, culture, or place of birth, class cannot be determined except by the positions of the individual in society, and cannot be reproduced except through participation in the functioning of the economic system" (p. 95). Re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 14:37:28 PST 2001

32554 Fwd: {FP} Pacifica v. First Amendment by Jesse Walker -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:00:47 -0700 From: Jesse Walker <jwalkernot at earthlink.net> I'm not entirely happy with the way this came out, but what the hell, it's a new audience for the message: http://reason.com/hod/jw022601.html Pacifica v. First Amendment By Jesse Walker Reason Online, February 26, 2001 By now it's common for critics of particular corporations to create Web sites that lay out their case. It's also common, unfortunately, for the targeted business to respond with a legal t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 12:21:48 PST 2001

32555 discrim in sentencing -- rank: 1000

"Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the US Federal Courts" BY: DAVID B. MUSTARD University of Georgia Terry College of Business Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=253712 Date: Undated Contact: DAVID B. MUSTARD Email: Mailto:mustard at terry.uga.edu Postal: University of Georgia Terry College of Business Dept. of Economics 528 Brooks Hall Athens, GA 30602-6255 USA Phone: 706- ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 11:26:32 PST 2001

32556 Adieu to globaloney -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >"Mass-murdering imperial nation" is a tautology. And >in terms of mass murders attributable directly to >viciousness and brutality rather than to the >viciousness and brutality which were intrinsic to >historically inevitable production relations, the >British Empire was better than most. You can >criticise a capitalist for being a monster, but not >for being a capitalist, and the vast majority of the >Empire's victims were victims of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 11:06:51 PST 2001

32557 Adieu to globaloney -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I think he's stuck on the romance of Britain as a >manufacturing country, with lots of mill towns, pit >villages and similar lovely old close-knit >communities. This is a fairly endemic disease in >Britland -- thinking of our history as being "a great >manufacturing nation", which we aren't, rather than a >great trading nation, which we were. Don't forget the "great mass-murdering imperial nation" part! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 10:01:52 PST 2001

32558 Adieu to globaloney -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: ><http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,443449,00.html> >Goodbye to globalisation > >America's new focus means greater realism and honesty for the rest of us > >Special report: globalisation > >John Gray >Tuesday February 27, 2001 >The Guardian Are Gray's Tory roots showing? Does he really think that "globalization" was the personal political project of Bill Clinton, rather than something with several centuries o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 08:54:15 PST 2001

32559 openculture -- rank: 1000

Can't vouch for this, but... >http://www.openculture.org/ > >Slogan: Art should be free. Artists should be paid. > >Executive summary: > > OpenCulture is a new way to make books and music freely available > online, while making sure that artists get fairly compensated. > Using the Internet to let sponsors pool their resources, we > purchase the right to enjoy and redistribute works of art on behalf > of the public. > >More details: > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 08:46:27 PST 2001

32560 Gore Won Florida by 29,756 votes -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It is actually interesting that the national media is trumpeting the limited >Miami Herald recount, which goes against Gore, but has been very quiet about >the county-by-county recounts that have shown massive gains for Gore across >the state. Well, the bourgeois media doesn't want a legitimation crisis, does it? I do, but then I'm not part of the bourgeois media, my love for Madonna to the contrary. But the big media consortium recount isn't done yet, is it? If ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 07:49:37 PST 2001

32561 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>When I first came to Columbus, Ohio, its "downtown" had pennants >>flying all over the place, proclaiming to all: "downtown." >>Christian's maxim -- "if you have to say it, you're not it" -- holds >>true, I'm afraid. > >Like: political science, computer science, management science. If it >has to _call itself_ science, it's not. So it is very sneaky of >economics to _not call itself science._ Ah, but there' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 07:04:37 PST 2001

32562 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Dead Prez and Coup are out and out Marxists. Look for >them on Napster if you still can (or Gnutella) > >>From a review of the "Coup" album > >"Somewhat erratic but startlingly accomplished for a >debut album, Kill My Landlord is by turns slyly >humorous, explicitly and aggressively Marxist, and >thoughtfully sociopolitical" ...and it includes the words "primitive accumulation." Doug PS: Note to Jordan: Pete S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 27 06:58:18 PST 2001

32563 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Welcome to the world of left musicology and aesthetic elitism :-) Hey, I'm a guy who likes Madonna, remember? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 08:16:34 PST 2001

32564 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >What's "political" art anyway, though? Art that's consciously and explicitly about political subjects. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 08:15:45 PST 2001

32565 worlds collide -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I take it you don't care for Broadside-type political folk? Pete >Seeger, Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl, Phil Ochs, Malvina Reynolds, >etc.? Right. That stuff makes me want to scream. Strumming banjos around the campfire will be a capital offense after my revolution. >Leek, I saw a fine off-Broadway (well, this being Chicago, off-State >St.) production of Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards, almost >enough to revive the old time religion in me. What's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 26 07:54:07 PST 2001