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Demeter

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29. New Minas: So what got left out of the budget this year?

Sat Dec 21, 2013, 10:11 PM

Dec 2013

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/19/1263894/-Bill-Moyers-The-End-of-Democracy?detail=email

1. Unemployment Extension
2. Real infrastructure development/work relief actions
3. economy-stimulating alternative energy tax credits and subsidies
4. removal of fossil fuel subsidies
5. removal of tax loopholes for the ultra wealthy
6. removal of protections for offshore tax havens
7. Carbon tax and carbon reduction targets
8. increases in school lunch programs, child-care programs, elderly care programs
9. the increase of the social security ceiling to $500,000 annual income.
10. Comprehensive work toward a Constitutional amendment prohibiting private campaign financing
11. Comprehensive work toward a Constitutional amendment denying corporate personhood.

anything else?

Bill Moyer's lament of democracy video at link...

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