Ralph Nader's progressive tax isn't aimed at "rich" people who make even $250,000 a year. His tax on the "rich" is aimed at corporate CEOs and the like who make $50 million a year on the backs of their workers. A case in point heard Nader spoke of a one of his super rallies: MSNBC was deciding where to locate its offices, New York or New Jersey. A bidding war ensued to have this high-profile company locate in either state. It ended up choosing Jersey. Why? Because New Jersey said to Microsoft and General Electric, We'll take the state taxes your workers pay, and then give them back to your corporations. And that was just one of the corporate subsidies. As for taxing the wealthy, consider this from votenader.org: The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent. These are not the wealthy who worked hard for their six figures and are living a comfortable lifestyle. These wealthy people are so astoundingly rich based on the work of others and on corporate welfare.
There's also a wake county, where raleigh and part of research triangle park are indeed located. my guess: the statistics still stand, but the reporter (or editor or copy editor) mistyped the name of the county, which, obviously blows the credibility out of the water.
Just curious about your literary/media studies influences. Specifically, I'm interested in your opinion on Noam Chomsky and Jean Baudrillard, in terms of media studies and critiques. Also, who are your favorite writers -- fiction or nonfiction?
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Ralph Nader's progressive tax isn't aimed at "rich" people who make even $250,000 a year. His tax on the "rich" is aimed at corporate CEOs and the like who make $50 million a year on the backs of their workers. A case in point heard Nader spoke of a one of his super rallies: MSNBC was deciding where to locate its offices, New York or New Jersey. A bidding war ensued to have this high-profile company locate in either state. It ended up choosing Jersey. Why? Because New Jersey said to Microsoft and General Electric, We'll take the state taxes your workers pay, and then give them back to your corporations. And that was just one of the corporate subsidies. As for taxing the wealthy, consider this from votenader.org: The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent. These are not the wealthy who worked hard for their six figures and are living a comfortable lifestyle. These wealthy people are so astoundingly rich based on the work of others and on corporate welfare.
There's also a wake county, where raleigh and part of research triangle park are indeed located. my guess: the statistics still stand, but the reporter (or editor or copy editor) mistyped the name of the county, which, obviously blows the credibility out of the water.
j
Just curious about your literary/media studies influences. Specifically, I'm interested in your opinion on Noam Chomsky and Jean Baudrillard, in terms of media studies and critiques. Also, who are your favorite writers -- fiction or nonfiction?
-justin