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New Jersey taxes

samedi 7 juillet 2018 à 02:00

New Jersey's Democratic governor wants to undo Republican tax cuts, but Democratic legislators are protecting the rich from paying more tax.

Raising the sales tax is wrong, because that falls mainly on the poor. The tax increase should be directed only at income tax, so as to spare the poor.

Urgent: Profiting from refugee imprisonment

samedi 7 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Everyone: call on Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock to stop profiting from imprisonment of refugees.

Urgent: Divest from weapons companies

samedi 7 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Everyone: call on all governments to divest public pension funds from weapons companies.

Repressive form of internet

samedi 7 juillet 2018 à 02:00

China is spreading a repressive form of internet to repressive countries around the world.

The article spreads confusion when it uses the term "intellectual property". What this article really means is "trade secrets". Another article may use the same phrase to mean "copyright". Yet another may use it to mean "patents". The three have nothing in common, so any use of a term that tries to generalize about all of them (and other things, too!) is pure confusion.

The Democratic Party

samedi 7 juillet 2018 à 02:00

The Democratic Party must embrace the progressive ideas that Democrats uphold, or it can't lead them to an election victory.