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Two Paths: Bust Unions or Raise Taxes on the Wealthy?
While austerity measures are sweeping the nation – and Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin are going after middle class workers to balance state budgets – Minnesota’s Democratic Governor has a different idea. Instead of balancing budgets on the backs of working families – Governor Mark Dayton is proposing a 5% tax increase on the wealthiest people in Minnesota – or the top 5% of income earners in the state. What Governor Daytona sees is the same thing that most progressives see – the easiest solution to both state and federal budget deficits – raising taxes on the rich.
America collects fewer taxes by proportion than most of the industrialized world – and taxes are lower right now than at any other point in the last 50 years in this nation. It’s not a coincidence that this drop off in taxes corresponds with massive levels of debt. It’s simple – banksters got us into this mess because they had too much money in their pockets thanks to the Reagan and Bush tax cuts – and used the cash to speculate on Wall Street – which led to our economy crashing.
So the banksters – and not working families – should now have to make some sacrifices to get us out of the mess.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
BREAKING NEWS: Labor fights for rights in Wisconsin!! With John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation; Associate Editor-Capitol Times (WI) and Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer - AFL-CIO.
Need to Know: Government shutdown just around the corner? With Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL, 9th district).
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King goes after Julian Assange and Wikileaks with "SHIELD" Act With Jamie Weinstein, Deputy Editor - Daily Caller.
The Best of the Rest of the News...
South Dakota Moves To Legalize Killing Abortion Providers With Sam Bennett, President - Women's Campaign Forum and Heather Cirmo, conservative pro-life advocate & managing owner 440 Group PR Consulting.
Screwed: The Subprime School Industry’s Lobbying ‘WAR’ To Maintain Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies With Lee Fang, Reporter/blogger at Think Progress.org.
Crazy Alert: Bachmann Blasts First Lady And 'Nanny State' -- For Promoting Breastfeeding.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Daily Take: Madoff: Banks Had To Know What Was Going On
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man." -- Louis Brandeis.
Are child labor laws unconstitutional?
Quote: "The notion that prohibition is any less prohibition when applied to things now thought evil I do not understand...to say that it is permissible as against strong drink but not as against the product of ruined lives." " by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..
Hour Two: Will the Republicans win the Wisconsin war on Labor A report on the protests by John Nichols, Washington Correspondent - The Nation Magazine; Associate Editor-Capitol Times; author/co-author of several books, latest (with Robert McChesney) "The Death and Life of American Journalism".
Hour Three: Overdiagnosed...are we making people sick in the pursuit of health? With Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Professor of Medicine-Dartmouth Institute for Health; Author-"Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health".
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For the bumper music list I would like to submit a song by the greatest west coast protest writer of the '60s my friend P.F. Sloan and the song is "When The Wind Changes". If you need a copy of the song I can email it to you. just let me know where to email it.
Thanks,
Larry