Mary Elizabeth Williams: “Is the Catholic Church even trying to make sense on marriage equality?”
Don’t repeat the flat-out vicious untruth that “Redefining marriage in the law says many false things: women — mothers — are dispensable; men — fathers — are dispensable; what adults want trumps what a child deserves and has a basic right to.” Because I have to tell you, that’s what grasping at straws looks like. I’ve yet to find anything from anyone – except the opponents of marriage equality, that is — suggesting that anybody is out to make either mothers or fathers “dispensable.” Trust me. I’m a mother. And every time two dudes get married, I still keep my job. Did my heterosexual dad eradicate fatherhood when he left my mother before I was born? OK, then. Think it through. It’s embarrassing how you’re not even trying to make sense here. And when you say that “Redefining marriage serves no one’s rights, least of all those of children,” you’re revealing a stunning amount of ignorance about gay and lesbian families, their offspring and their rights. Stunning.
Steve Wozniack: “Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak speaks out on tax”
People are not taxed on profit, they are taxed on income, corporations should be taxed the same as people in my mind, that is how it should be, that would make things fair and right.
That means corporations pay taxes on all of their revenues or people only pay it on a tiny amount called profit and until we rectify that the whole problem is just with us forever.
That is really not fair, that businesses are not treated the same as people.
A person would say, “My life is my business and I have to pay for my home, pay for my clothes, my food and what is left over if I make a little money some year and put it in savings, that is my profit,” but people are not taxed on profit, they are taxed on income.
Karl Smith: “Just Give People Money”
Even as the country gets richer, labor gets a shrinking share to spend. Which in turn means fewer sales for most retailers. Which means less pricing power. Which means declining inflation as well as weak job market. …
To counteract this the government can print money and give it to people. Those people will then go to the store and spend the money, which will lead to higher sales. Higher sales will slow the fall in inflation, but will also provide an incentive to hire more workers, which itself will lesson the need for massive government transfers of income.
Lynne Stuart Parramore: “When Your Boss Steals Your Wages: The Invisible Epidemic That’s Sweeping America”
Cheating workers of their wages may seem like a problem of 19th-century sweatshops. But it’s back and taking a terrible toll. We’re talking billions of dollars in wages; millions of workers affected each year. A gigantic heist is being perpetrated against working people: they’re getting screwed on overtime, denied their tips, shortchanged on benefits, defrauded on payroll, and handed paychecks that bounce like rubber balls. A conservative estimate of unpaid overtime alone shows that it costs workers at least $19 billion per year.
Amy Davidson: “What Charles Ramsey and Amanda Berry Knew”
For Amanda Berry and the others to be rescued, in other words, two things had to happen: she had to never forget who she was, and that who she was mattered; and Charles Ramsey needed to not care who she might be at all — think that all that mattered was that a woman was trapped behind a door that wouldn’t open, and to walk onto the porch.
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