How many of you dealt with that chaos when it came to wrestling with the unemployment insurance system last year? Some of the rhetoric we heard was, “well that chaos was just the pandemic crush overwhelming the system”. Yes, that’s true in a very narrow sense—the system collapsed in many places, meaning people who were […]
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Episode 212: Unemployment Money Chaos Redux?; Clawing Back Dough From The Rich
Posted on 03 February 2021.
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Episode 194: Two Hollywood Tales—A Union Win In California, A Florida Progressive Aims To Fire Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
Posted on 12 August 2020.
Today the show is all about Hollywood. Hollywood, California and Hollywood, Florida. Hollywood, California is in a rumble. For most performers in the entertainment business, residuals are the foundation to making a living—either a solid middle class living or somewhat less than that. Over many decades, residuals have been tied to various things such as […]
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A “House of Cards” Tax Scam…By Netflix Producers of “House of Cards”
Posted on 16 March 2015.
Full disclosure: I’ve made by contribution to the popularity of “House of Cards” by watching all three seasons (FWIW, I though the third season was stilted, pretty boring in many parts and, basically, a slightly edgier version of “The West Wing” and that’s not meant as a positive…). That said, this doesn’t surprise me because no corporation is immune from trying to take advantage of our dumb tax system that consistently rewards corporations for no good reason at the expense of taxpayers.
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