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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
Kinda like Town Hall?
Put the fetus to the test
You know you know you got to
Make the fetus express how it feels
And maybe then you know the love is real
Income tax on people who make more than $250,000.
Luxury tax on things like $60 bottles of scotch and $60,000 cars.
Outsourcing tax on WA-based corporations that send jobs overseas.
Poverty-wage tax on corporations that don't pay their employees enough to get off of government subsidies.
18% interest on money borrowed by big banks from the Federal Reserve to cover negligent lending practices, collected by the Federal Government and paid back to states in proportion to the damage big banks did to each state's revenue (it's what Citi offered to charge me for a credit card).
Foreclosure tax on any profit banks make by foreclosing on property in WA.
Reports from local sources, observers, participants report violence by police against people who had NOTHING to do with any violent behavior--a personal friend was shoved by OPD, another tazered--a couple people tazered repeatedly.
Intercity buses--Unionized, no less--were driven up to take away people arrested for exercising first amendment rights. Protesters responded by laying down in front of buses, moving picnic benches in front of them, etc. This nonviolent resistance was--unsurprisingly--responded to with further violence from the police.
The livestream person is believed to have been arrested but here's what he got before that: http://www.livestream.com/occupyolympia
"we people-linked around the bus stopping it from taking arrestees
then they just let loose
they started strangling me and threw me against a car
then we started chaining back
and one tackled me and slammed my head into the mud
then i got back up
and started walking away
when another one grabbed me by the shirt
lifted me off the ground, threw me a
nd when i got up
a cop punched me in the face and i fell back down"
another, documenting only, was smashed by the cops while NOT participating in any action.
1) Taxing the income on those who make over $250k 100% of their income over 250k will fix only 5% of the budget deficit.
2) U.S. spends more per student on education than any developed nation in the world. The output is not in line with the inputs as kids here aren't competitive with kids from other developed worlds. Cutting spending isn't necessarily the solution, but until teachers are more accountable (as a group, there are hundreds of outstanding teachers), they don't really have a leg to stand on. Make some concessions, like merit based pay, benefits in line with the private sector, longer school hours and less school holidays, and you will find taxpayers more likely to be on board with increased education spending.
And before someone goes off about the money going towards administration and overhead; teachers are in the best position to revamp the system (including eliminating the union overlords that pocket so much of the taxpayer money and use to further their self interests).