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Citizens for Tax Justice:
"If presidential candidate Herman Cain’s proposed “9-9-9 tax plan” was in effect today, then the richest one percent of taxpayers would each pay $210,000 less in annual taxes on average, while the poorest 60 percent of taxpayers would each pay about $2,000 more in annual taxes on average, than they do now. Moreover, under the 9-9-9 plan, the United States government would collect about $340 billion less in revenue in "
Full report here: http://www.ctj.org/pdf/cainplan.pdf
Give it legs.Citizens for Tax Justice:
"If presidential candidate Herman Cain’s... more
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And that’s why they’re running scared and doing everything in their power to block this movement’s purpose from reaching the awareness of the people. It’s the very last thing the monied interests want, because once that happens, their tenuous control over the country ceases to be, and that ain’t good for profits.
http://veracitystew.com/2011/09/27/occupy-wall-street-ignoring-a-growing-movement-video/And that’s why they’re running scared and doing everything in their power... more
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Two Excerpts:
"Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street embroiled in obscene criminal scandals that impoverished millions and collectively destroyed hundreds of billions, in fact, trillions of dollars of the world's wealth — and nobody went to jail."
"The math makes sense only because the politics are so obvious. You want to win elections, you bang on the jailable class. You build prisons and fill them with people for selling dime bags and stealing CD players. But for stealing a billion dollars? For fraud that puts a million people into foreclosure? Pass. It's not a crime. Prison is too harsh. Get them to say they're sorry, and move on. Oh, wait — let's not even make them say they're sorry. That's too mean; let's just give them a piece of paper with a government stamp on it, officially clearing them of the need to apologize, and make them pay a fine instead. But don't make them pay it out of their own pockets, and don't ask them to give back the money they stole. In fact, let them profit from their collective crimes, to the tune of a record $135 billion in pay and benefits last year."
The article is very informative!
By Matt Taibbi - Rollingstone.com
Read more at: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
Where is Justice?
Join the Organic Movement:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/Two Excerpts:
"Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis... more
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