Congress is reportedly considering raising taxes by at least $540billion over 10 years to fund President Obama's health careinitiative through a "surtax" on top of the highest individual taxrates.
heroes in this story are anonymous people. take the one of my favorite stories occurs in atlanta, georgia, in 1881. al sharpton will love this. the atlanta washerwomen strike. these were 20 women who were, you know, just out of slavery, right? this is the end of reconstruction, the beginning of redemption, 1881. and they go on strike. they re doing laundry for rich white people. they go on strike. they take on the city of atlanta. the city of atlanta puts a $25 surtax on them thinking they re going to break them. meanwhile, they re organizing in the black community. eventually they have 3,000 members. they pay the surcharge and refuse to buckle. and in a month atlanta raises their wages. these are the kind of heroes, unsung heroes that black history is replete with. what we need to do is to tell their stories.
SARASOTA — When Sarasota County commissioners received an update last week about their eventual new administration center, Commissioner Nancy Detert asked the obvious question.
are the people at the low end of the income scale, and things like taking the child tax credit and extending or making permanent the refundability of it, making sure the poorest families with children continue to have some help paying their bills, those are the households where the choice will be between food on the table or not. and that doesn t mean i m unsympathetic to others, but if we think about a response, we ought to think about a targeted response. very quickly, ron widen of oregon proposed a surtax on exit profi excess profits from oil companies. is that something in theory you would support? i m not an expert on the oil, the industry oil markets. i do know that commodity prices are global phenomena, not just company specific phenomena. and at a time when you ve got the crude oil price so high, and these companies with, you know, decade, multidecade investments that they re drawing on, in terms of providing, you know,