Danny Westneat, Seattle Times (excerpted) “It’s not even close,” says Bob McIntyre. “In the past three years, you have paid way more into the system than Boeing.” McIntyre is a tax wonk, the director of … Citizens for Tax Justice, released a study showing that 12 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘budget’
August 17th, 2011 - 5:53 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Totem House: an obituary
Totem House was one of Seattle’s Few non-Thai but inexpensive places to eat fish. It is now being replaced by a branch of the Red Mill … one more burger joint? The sign now says they re-open this month. Albert Fikes stumbled into the offices of The Seattle Salmon, severely dehydrated[...]
China Calls for New Money
Aug 6 (Reuters) – China on Saturday condemned the “short-sighted” political wrangling in the United States over its debt problems and said the world needed a new global stable reserve currency. “China, the largest creditor of the world’s sole superpower, has every right[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ripples of Radical Republican Tantrum Spread Across the World
FINANCIAL CRISIS Asian markets fall on historic US credit downgrade Asian stock markets plunged on Monday morning following an unprecedented downgrade of the US government’s AAA credit rating to AA-plus by Standard & Poor’s and growing worries over the eurozone debt crisis.[...]
August 1st, 2011 - 11:40 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: Romney takes a stand of debt crisis.
Goaded by his rivals … “As president, my plan would have produced a budget that was cut, capped and balanced – not one that opens the door to higher taxes and puts defense cuts on the table,” Romney said on Monday. “President Obama’s leadership failure has pushed the economy to the brink[...]
July 26th, 2011 - 9:14 am § in Misc.
Who Pays For The Tea Party’s Excesses?
Republican posturing over the debt ceiling is increasing our national debt Patrick Sharma, postdoctoral fellow, The Bancroft Library | 7/20/11 | , Berkeley Blog One of the most important yet least acknowledged aspects of the debt ceiling drama currently gripping Washington is the fact that Republica[...]
Across the Board Cuts to NIH Grants
From Genomeweb News: Facing a budget cut of nearly one percent for its operations, programs, and research awards over the remainder of the fiscal year, the National Institutes of Health will trim back the size of its grants for all of its institutes and centers (ICs), NIH said Monday. The 2011 budge[...]
Peace in Politics at Easter Time: Ed Murray and Fran Zarelli
from Seattle Times: OLYMPIA — If there was ever an odd couple in the state Legislature, it would be Sens. Ed Murray and Joe Zarelli. (excerpted) They are polar opposites. Murray’s a liberal, openly gay Democratic lawmaker from Capitol Hill who supports creating a state income tax. Zarelli[...]
April 22nd, 2011 - 1:22 pm § in The Ave Scene
Dinner with Northwest’s leading Politicians …
On Thursday, April 28th, the Northwest Progressive Institute (NPI)is holding its Spring Fundraising Gala at the Community Center at Mercer View, 82346 SE 24th Street on Mercer Island (map). The reception begins at 6:30 PM and the main program begins at 7:15 PM. This is your chance to hang out[...]
April 21st, 2011 - 8:13 pm § in America
BREAKING NEWS: GOOD NEWS from the economy
The Conference Board reported today that its Leading Economic Index (LEI) increased again in March (see chart above), which is the 24th consecutive monthly increase starting in April 2009 just before the recession officially ended in June of that year. The last time the Leading Economic Index increa[...]