Andrew Cuomo announced in Pleasantville, five miles North of my home, as he signed the Property Tax Cap, that the “madness is over”. But Governor Cuomo should know better. The tax cap addresses the ‘top line’ of a problem, not its underlying inequities. The biggest problem with property taxes in New York State is that […]
Egypt, China Attempt to Plug Information About Egyptian Protests
by Matthew L. Schafer Note: This article originally appeared at the media website LWR. It has been five days since massive protests broke out in the streets of Egypt, and despite the Internet crackdown imposed by the government, the voice of the people still flows. The protests are a response to the political, social, and […]
Wikileaks Changed Journalism, But It Didn’t Do It Alone
Note: This report originally appeared at the media blog Lippmann Would Roll. by Matthew L. Schafer “The greatest danger in this country today is not the release of these documents, but the secrecy, the deception, the politics, the manipulation which is undermining the confidence of the American people in both political parties.” A response to […]
U.S.A., Inc.: States Now Levying Service Charges For Traffic Offenses
Even in light of all those millions in stimulus monies that have now been distributed to the states and state legislatures in order to fund local and municipal budgets, and with also the ever increasing amounts of fines and penalties that are now leveraged against American citizens nationwide in monies collected for routine traffic violations […]
Why This Depression Will Last A Long Time
When the United States exited the last depression in 1946, it was on the back of 15 years of under-consumption and pent-up demand. The average American male owned four pairs of pants. Poor families had to wash their underwear every night to get by. Owning a car was the mark of a middle class family. No one had a […]
Amazon says 2008 holiday season was ‘best ever’
SEATTLE (AP) — Online retailer Amazon.com called this holiday season its "best ever," saying Friday that it saw a 17% increase in orders on its busiest day — a rare piece of good news in a season that has been far from merry for most retailers, including online businesses. Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 […]
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