[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] Madigan should be supported on this

[C. G. Estabrook]

It should be clear that it's Democrats who are responsible for the failure of the millionaire tax.

Our local Democrats would support it, wouldn't they? 

I await their introduction of bills for a wealth tax and a Tobin tax. 

--CGE

On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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: Madigan 'millionaire tax' stalls out
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> Madigan 'millionaire tax' stalls out
> SPRINGFIELD --- Speaker Michael Madigan wasn’t able to wrangle enough votes to get his so-called millionaire tax proposal out of the Illinois Hous...
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> Ricky 
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> "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
> On Friday, March 28, 2014 9:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com> wrote:
> Madigan's Millionaire Tax
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> http://politics.rebootillinois.com/2014/03/21/uncategorized/mattdietrich/political-wizard-mike-madigan-pulls-magic-wand-millionaire-tax/2190/
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