<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">It should be clear that it's Democrats who are responsible for the failure of the millionaire tax.<div><br></div><div>Our local Democrats would support it, wouldn't they? </div><div><br></div><div>I await their introduction of bills for a wealth tax and a Tobin tax. <br><div><br></div><div>--CGE</div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Ricky Baldwin <<a href="mailto:baldwinricky@yahoo.com">baldwinricky@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A progressive income tax or a wealth tax is what we need, or a tax on CME transactions, but since Madigan is apparently not going to use his considerable political muscle for any of those, we have no choice but to support this. It now appears that the heady excitement may be over, however: <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-09/news/chi-madigan-millionaire-tax-stalls-out-20140409_1_springfield-speaker-michael-madigan-illinois-house-stalls">Madigan 'millionaire tax' stalls out</a><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';" id="enhancrCard_2" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element" contenteditable="false"><table class="link-enhancr-element" style="width:450px; height:170px; position: relative; margin-top:5px;
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<<a href="mailto:carl@newsfromneptune.com">carl@newsfromneptune.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Madigan's Millionaire Tax<br><br><a href="http://politics.rebootillinois.com/2014/03/21/uncategorized/mattdietrich/political-wizard-mike-madigan-pulls-magic-wand-millionaire-tax/2190/" target="_blank">http://politics.rebootillinois.com/2014/03/21/uncategorized/mattdietrich/political-wizard-mike-madigan-pulls-magic-wand-millionaire-tax/2190/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss</a><br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div>_______________________________________________<br>OccupyCU mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net">OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net</a><br>https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>