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New
York Magazine's Ryan Lizza on "how Bush screws New York"
by
IseFire
- Wed 06/09/04; 10:26 pm EST
Lizza:
By
the time the [Republican National Convention] starts on August
30, the host of this party, [Republican] Mayor Bloomberg, will
be quietly battling with his guests, President Bush and the GOP-controlled
Congress, on almost every issue of importance to the city.
Each February, a team of Bloomberg’s wonks scours the Bush
budget to figure out how bad its impact will be on the city. In
April, the mayor releases the fruit of that process, a thick,
richly detailed book... that sometimes reads as if it were written
by the Democratic National Committee. On issue after issue, the
Bloomberg administration, sometimes in withering language, describes
how Bush’s proposals are bad for New York. One of the most
common phrases appearing in the book is “Position: Oppose.”
It crops up again and again when summarizing the Bloomberg response
to Bush policies.
Reader:
please give to the Iowa Democratic Party
by
IseFire
- Mon 06/07/04; 9:06 pm EST
This
from an Associated Press story:
With
only five seats standing between them and control of either chamber
of the Iowa Legislature, Democrats say they're poised to regain
power at the statehouse with enough wins come November.
Iowa
Dems need your help. The state is a swing state in November! Help
Iowa Dems with the "GOTV" effort for Kerry and their own
state candidates.
Gore won Iowa by only 4,144 votes
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of John Kerry.
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Will
Kerry stop Bush's insidious tax favoritism toward the rich?
by
IseFire
- Thu 06/03/04; 8:21 am EST
The
top 1% richest Americans, those who make at least $313,469 a year,
generally make a large percentage of that from effiortless income
off investments; yet, under Dubya Bush, investment income is exempt
from Social Security and Medicare taxes, even though your
income is not exempt. In fact, Social Security and Medicare take
12.7% your earnings (more than income taxes, which take 10.7%).
What is more, 25% of all investment income is not reported on tax
returns due to legal
and extra-legal under-reporting.
The entire taxation system is created to find out every penny of
hard-earned wages you earn, while letting the rich keep for their
pleasure as much of their investment income as possible.
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