Posted on 24 February 2021. Tags: Big PHARMA, COVID-19, Jan Schakowsky, Lori Wallach, Myanmar, WTO
You aren’t going to be surprised by this news: Big Pharma is killing people. All over the world. And the real kicker here is: after you, the taxpayer, gave billions of dollars to Big Pharma companies to come up with a vaccine for COVID-19, Big Pharma is keeping that vaccine from getting into the hands […]
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Posted on 21 March 2014. Tags: Citizens for Tax Justice, Jan Schakowsky, Progressive Caucus, Taxes
Most of the nonsense coming from Congress about budgets — and that nonsense is particularly of a Republican Party flavor but also emanating from Democrats — touts more tax breaks and tax cuts for business. It’s entirely crazy. The one island of sanity comes from the Progressive Caucus.
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Posted on 19 March 2011. Tags: Alan Simpson, Catfood Commission, Debt, Deficit Commission, Deficits, Erskine Bowles, Fairness, Hysteria, Jan Schakowsky, Nonsense, Social Security, Taxes, The Rich
Jan Schakowsky is really one of my favorite elected leaders. I wish she had run for the U.S. Illinois Senate seat in 2010 but she continues to carry the torch in the House. Yesterday, she unveiled a serious proposal to tax the richest people in the country–as a response to the rising rhetorical nonsense coming […]
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Posted on 04 December 2010. Tags: Alan Simpson, Catfood Commission, Debt, Deficit Commission, Deficits, Erskine Bowles, Financial Crisis, Hysteria, Jan Schakowsky, Nonsense, Peter Peterson, Social Security, Tax Cuts, Xavier Becerra
What a waste of time. They can now drift into obscurity. But, after listening to the self-congratulations of many of the members of the Catfood Commission, all I can say is: we have a long task ahead to turn around the country to get back to reality. Here was the opening nonsense that I […]
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