Why people should stop whining and pay their goddamn taxes already, from one of those small business owners who the Fortune 500 like to use as a human shield.
h/t John Scalzi
Jul 302011
“Poor people aren’t supposed to want nice things”
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Aug 222010
Problem Chylde explains the proper etiquette of poverty. Something to consider if you’re tempted to go on about how poor people in America aren’t “really” poor because they have color television.
(h/t unusualmusic)
Apr 042008
Bear Stearns shareholders were saved from owning a bankrupt company, JP Morgan got the Fed to guarantee its risky investment, the Unitary Executive Unclear on the Concept is proposing fake regulations and less of them, stocks shot up on news of massive job losses, and “foreclosure relief” bills are doing very little for consumers but lots for banks.
And a great “Hmmmm….” was heard
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Mar 152008
Clearly, since LegalPad picked it up, I wasn’t the only one who noticed this quote in a piece about the Spitzer scandal:
Melissa Gira Grant, another former sex worker, says, “A mid-range online escort who books her own clients makes $200 to $300 an hour.”
In San Francisco or Los Angeles, she might charge $300 to $500 per hour, Monet says.
Grant’s rule of thumb: “If you look at what a lawyer makes (in a particular city), that’s what an escort makes,” she says.
Jan 162008
Read the whole post over at Bitch Ph.D., but it’s Mr. B for the win:
Well, sir, let me tell you. I was in the military for twelve years, and the government provided *my* health care. And it was first rate.
A Worker’s Memorial
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Oct 212007
La Lubu posts the text of a kick-ass speech she gave at the April 2006 Workers’ Memorial.
Oct 022007
Insurance companies in Washington state are panicking over an initiative that would subject them to triple damages for denying a legitimate claim.
It is true, as the McTools point out, that this will encourage more lawsuits; what they don’t want to spell out is that it increases lawsuits because victims are not at a financial disadvantage, either paying out-of-pocket for legal fees, or hoping that their claim is worth enough to persuade a lawyer to take their case on contingency. (In other words, unless your claim is big, your insurance company can gleefully deny it because they know you won’t sue.) This makes the financial incentives to pursue a valid claim much, much bigger.
Insurance companies aren’t really in the business of insurance anymore. They’re in the business of persuading you to hand over the money they invest, and they don’t take kindly to being told they have to give some of it back.
More on the Federal budget
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Jul 252007
Athenian Abroad reads the Federal budget so you don’t have to, but should. The series:
- Estimating the true fiscal gap
- Eliminating tax loopholes, especially for the wealthy
- Deconstructing the fantasy of spending cuts without tax increases
And a series of links for further reading.
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