Raising Taxes to pay U.S. bill

Notes 25

Illinois on the track to Eisenhower days and the end of the debt crisis. That’s all it will take to stop country's collapse. The bill has got to be paid, people. No more Reagan free lunches.

52.38% top marginal tax rate: Eisenhower, King of the Socialists
by mbzoltan
Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 10:54:53 AM PST
Only in 1988 and 1989 (Ronald Reagan's final 13 months in office) was the TOP MARGINAL rate down to 28%. It was 69.13% when he went into office, and went from 69.13%-50% from 1981-1986, then 38.5%, then 28%.

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When will the public stop cutting its throat? Why is it services and people’s jobs that have to pay the bill for our profligate excesses

Camden, NJ braces for deep police, fire cuts
Camden, NJ, poor and crime-ridden, braces for deep cuts, slashing of police, fire staffs

Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press, On Sunday January 16, 2011
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- Yet another crisis is upon this burdened city, among the most impoverished and crime-ridden in the country.
Deep layoffs of city workers go into effect on Tuesday -- cutting up to 383 jobs, or one-fourth of the city's employees.
The exact number depends on whether public workers' unions make last-minute concessions.

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Another billion dollar bad idea badly managed with bad result and great profits for corporation

U.S. ends "virtual fence" project on Mexican border
By Jeremy Pelofsky – Fri Jan 14, WASHINGTON (Reuters) –
President Barack Obama's administration on Friday canceled the troubled "virtual fence" project meant to better guard stretches of the vast U.S. border with Mexico and will replace it with other security measures.
The project, begun in 2006 and run by Boeing Co, has cost about $1 billion and was designed to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to catch illegal immigrants and smugglers trying to cross the porous border.

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Pollution is like global warming, unbelievable

Missed deadlines in clearing haze over parks
SEATTLE – More than 30 years after Congress set a goal of clearing the pollution-caused haze that obscures scenic vistas at some of America's wildest and most famous natural places, progress is still slow in coming
Saturday marks the deadline for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to approve most state plans aimed at curbing pollution from coal-fired power plants and industrial sources to improve visibility at 156 national parks and wilderness areas such as Shenandoah, Mount Rainier and the Grand Canyon.
But as of Thursday, the agency hadn't approved any state plans — or come up with its own, as required.

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The story of America captured in the tradeoff for jobs and money in North Florida

From a reader
I have worked in Paper Mills..Mills with Pulping operations like Digesters, evaporators / precipitators and Black Liquor Boilers along with Causticizing..produce really toxic runoffs in large quantities. If the environmental people come down too hard..they will just close the Mill and put a whole community out of work. Cantonment will become hard hit. There is really no way to get rid of these toxic by-product chemicals short of trucking it off and pumping it into a deep depleted oil reservoir.

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How much evidence is required to prove cigarettes are deadly before manufacturers will be arrested, for you know, murder?

Smoking causes gene damage in minutes
– Sat Jan 15, 9:17 pm ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Those first few puffs on a cigarette can within minutes cause genetic damage linked to cancer, US scientists said in a study released.
In fact, researchers said the "effect is so fast that it's equivalent to injecting the substance directly into the bloodstream," in findings described as a "stark warning" to those who smoke.

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Laws against suicide apparently do not apply to global warming

Press Release 11-006
Earth's Hot Past: Prologue to Future Climate?
Study of Earth's deep past leads to look into the future
View a video interview with Jeff Kiehl of UCAR.
The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases, a new analysis concludes.
The study, by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientist Jeffrey Kiehl, will appear as a "Perspectives" article in this week's issue of the journal Science.

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The politics and the egos and the amount of money involved is staggering

Cancer survivor aims to raze barriers with app
Cancer survivor aims to raze treatment, research barriers with an app to enable collaboration
Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press, On Sunday January 16, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In the late 1990s, Marty Tenenbaum was a hotshot e-commerce entrepreneur riding high on the dot-com boom when he noticed a lump on his body.
His doctor told him it was nothing, but when he finally had it removed, he learned he had melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Now 67, Tenenbaum still believes he would not have made it if he hadn't had personal connections at the National Cancer Institute who guided him toward cutting-edge experimental treatments that saved his life.
On Tuesday, he plans to launch a Web application to bring together patients, physicians and scientists regardless of where they work, live or went to college in hopes that the so-called wisdom of the crowd can lead to the best therapies.