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To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions

Columnists Jim Hightower - March 4, 2016 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER The financial transaction tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in the last year of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to help us recover from the Great Depression. Today, 40 countries have FTTs, including the seven with the fastest-growing stock exchanges in the world. Eleven members of the European […]

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Hillary’s The One

Columnists Susan Estrich - March 3, 2016 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Can I say I was right? OK, half right. I was right about Bernie Sanders but not about Donald Trump, which is really too bad, because Trump is a whole lot scarier than Sanders. After all, Sanders has been a working and productive member of the U.S. Senate, while Trump emerged into the political spotlight by confusing Hawaii [where President Obama was born] with Mexico [whose residents, according to Trump, are rapists […]

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The Three-Year Term

Columnists Susan Estrich - February 27, 2016 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH It is almost one year until the next president of the United States will be inaugurated. Try holding your breath. That’s right. Let’s make sure absolutely nothing happens for a year. Because U.S. presidents are only elected for three years, right? The fourth year they, and we, just better hope nothing important happens. This year, something important happened: An enormously influential Supreme Court justice died unexpectedly. The balance in the court between […]

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Why Should You And I Have To Keep Paying Mitch McConnell’s Salary?

Columnists Jim Hightower - February 24, 2016 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER Antonin Scalia is gone. The nastiest and noisiest of right-wingers on the Supreme Court is dead. But he can’t be any more brain dead than Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate. In a blatantly partisan ploy to prevent President Obama from nominating a successor to Scalia, McConnell has cited a historical precedent dictating that presidents who are in the last year of their term do not name new justices […]

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Apple, Public Safety, And Selling Stuff

Columnists Froma Harrop - February 23, 2016 0

BY FROMA HARROP Federal investigators hold the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the terrorist who helped slaughter 14 innocents in San Bernardino, CA. They want to look at its contents but can’t because the device is encrypted and Apple has refused to unlock it. The matter ended up in federal court, where a magistrate judge ordered Apple to hack Farook’s cellphone. Apple has rejected the judge’s order, citing privacy concerns. Apple is in the wrong. […]

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