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• California Annual Minimum Franchise Tax Repeal Proposed

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  A bipartisan commission appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger has recently proposed sweeping overhauls of California’s tax laws, including reduction of personal income tax rates, the elimination of the corporate tax, and the elimination of the $800 per yaer minimum annual franchise tax levied on corporations, LLCs, ...
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• Sunday Essay - food prices and Australian primary production

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 129
  The release of OECD data showing that food prices in Australia have increased 41.3 per cent since the start of 2000, the fastest rate of increase of any major developed nation, created quite a stir in this country.   Spain had the next fastest rate of increase over that time, at 41.2 per cent, followed by the ...
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• Creation of a UN Lobby for Global Governance of the Commons by the People

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 590
  Via James Quilligan , a message from Lisinka Ulatowska : “A growing number of organizations are planning a dialogue with Governments, a cooperative lobby, starting with the CSD in May 2010 to see how the Global Commons (those areas of the world and human experience that are vital to the well-being of humanity ...
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• What Makes a Jobs Bil Work? (A Job Insurance Supplement)

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 587
  Introduction: Up until a week ago, the prospects for a second round of economic stimulus looked bleak; an ominous coalition of Senate moderates (the same folks who shrank the stimulus and cut out Pelosi’s teacher preservation program, and who’ve tried their level best to stop the health care reform effort in ...
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• The Constitution Project

  
  One Day, One Job — Authority: 128
  Who doesn’t love the Constitution? Not only is it an extremely cool historical document, but it also happens to ensure our most sacred rights. You would think that such a document would be written with extreme clarity, but you probably know that ambiguity and interpretation come hand in hand with the Constitution. ...
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• Hal Samples and Willie Baronet: HOME

  
  Larry James' Urban Daily — Authority: 131
  Picked this up from Front Burner , the DMagazine blog site. Hal Samples has a studio next door to the Main Street offices of the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation . Willie Baronet Exhibit at Hal Samples Gallery from Cindy Chaffin on Vimeo . Posted on www.UrbanDaily.org
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• Reforming Australian public policy

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 129
  I am now up to post seven in my series on reforming Australian public policy. This is the most complicated blogging exercise I have attempted. This holds for length, a whole month of posts on one blog as well as supporting posts such as this one on other blogs, and for complexity. After all, I am trying to prove a ...
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• Andreas Wittel: Funding a Material Commons for Social Innovation

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 590
  In this excerpt of Andreas Wittel contributions to the Reimagining Society Project , one of the key questions concerns the role of state-based funding. Andreas Wittel: “Social production and the multiplication of the things being produced has severe implications for everything that is holy to the spirit of ...
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• Keynesian Spending vs. Economic Collapse

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 531
  BOGUE, Kan. - In good times, we Americans sing "Hallelujah, praise the Lord" and buy stuff. Sometimes we need it. If we dont, well, it looks so soooo cool on TV. No cash? No problem, we got plastic. God will come through on principal and interest later. For decades, consumer spending was a critical 70 percent ...
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• Political Will and Respecting Citizens

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 425
  Interesting further reaction from Dallas Morning News on the aftermath of Unify South Dallas meeting on this past Tuesday. The meeting with the Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert was, at the very least, a very healthy and significant show of respect for the citizens of south Dallas. It also represents the emergence of new, ...
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• Another Sore Loser Accounted For

  
  The Reformed Pastor — Authority: 424
  This one isn’t just your average sore loser, however, but a member of Congress–Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) who ought to know better than to write threatening stuff like this at Politico : I expect political hardball on any legislation as important as the health care bill. I just didn’t expect it from the United ...
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• The Coming Climate Dictatorship

  
  Global Climate Scam — Authority: 128
  By IBD Editorial Board Control: The House and Senate climate bills contain a provision giving the president extraordinary powers in the event of a “climate emergency.” As chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. If you thought the House health care bill that nobody read has hidden ...
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• Marginal Tax Rates Disincentivize Work

  
  Michael Williams Master of None — Authority: 131
  I guess this is a case of "if you understand, it probably doesnt apply to you": real marginal tax rates make work unrewarding for poor . To say that antipoverty programs in the United States are perverted may be an understatement. When you take into account the loss of means-tested benefits (e.g., cash assistance, ...
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• Sense and idiocy

  
  The Cost of Energy — Authority: 426
  First the sense, from Tim Haab, in his post Environmental Economics: If this is Orwellian, then call me George : From the UK Telegraph: Lord Smith of Finsbury believes that implementing individual carbon allowances for every person will be the most effective way of meeting the targets for cutting greenhouse gas ...
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• IMAPP Marriage Law Digest Online

  
  ADF Alliance Alert — Authority: 462
  The Institute for Marriage and Public Policy October 2009 Marriage Law Digest is now available online.
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• Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and NABT to Launch Stem Cell Educational Summit in Denver

  
  Your Story — Authority: 457
  DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) will launch the first Stem Cell Education Summit on Saturday, Nove
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• Saskia Sassen: Investing in a new infrastructure for distributed capitalism

  
  P2P Foundation — Authority: 590
  The effect I have in mind is a widely distributed range of growth sites, that incorporate more and more people. Clearly, this is not a revolution. This is within capitalism, but it begins to lay the ground for a widespread and distributed economic network, that can function as one platform for gaining entry into out ...
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• World Bank Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  World Development Report 2010 Website ; Main Messages of the Report World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change Act Now, Act Together, Act Differently Today’s enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change—the two are inextricably linked and together ...
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• Health Care Reform Has Nothing To With Health Care Or Reform

  
  Weekend Pundit — Authority: 135
  While Im at it, I might as well add insult to injury in regards to the the recently passed Pelosi Health Care Destruction bill. While she has crowed her success into forcing the passage of an onerous and deceptive bill the American people dont want, at least one liberal has the courage to state exactly what ...
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• Update: Investor Protection Act and Securities Arbitration

  
  ADR Prof Blog — Authority: 127
  On November 5, I blogged (here) about the House Financial Services Committee’s Investor Protection Act and its provision empowering the SEC to enact regulations banning mandatory arbitration in customer-broker account agreements.  In that post, I wrote: “I don’t quite understand the significance of this ...
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