Gary Huck’s Musings
Capital Times 100 BD
Dave Zweifel’s Plain Talk: 100 years of fighting the good fights Share
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From In These Times: Red Cross is instructing truckers to draw blood and nurses to load trucks Share
read moreGoodbye Wisconsin
This essay first appeared in the Labor Day 2017 copy of Madison’s Union Labor News: Good Bye, Wisconsin By Mike Konopacki Time travels at the speed of life. After 66 years I’ve left the state that I grew up in. After 46 years I’ve left the city and the people that have shaped me. In June of 2017 Linda and I sold our house near Vilas Park to begin retirement. We both grew up in Manitowoc, on the shores of Lake Michigan. The beach that Linda and I loved in our childhood has beckoned again, now it is the Atlantic Ocean at St. Augustine,...
read moreGrassley on Trickle-down
From Iowa Labor News: Progress Iowa calls on Grassley to apologize From Bryan’s Cross of Gold Speech: “Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between the idle holders of idle capital and the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country; and my friends, it is simply a question that we shall decide upon which side shall the Democratic Party fight. Upon the side of the idle holders of idle capital, or upon the side of the struggling masses? That is the question that the party must answer...
read moreGrad Student Tax
From Inside Higher Ed: Arrests, anger, anxiety as grad students visit Paul Ryan’s office From the Washington Post: Universities are also to blame for the grad-student tax Share
read moreHuck Teacher Cartoons for December 2017
Trickle-down, Santa Clause, GOP tax cuts, Sexual harassment Share
read moreMike Konopacki Teacher Cartoons for December 2017
Taxing grad students, school supply tax deduction, Janus v. AFSCME, GOP Trojan tax scheme Share
read moreLazy GOP Legislature
(With thanks to the Arkansas Traveler) Dave Zweifel’s Plain Talk: Full-time state legislators don’t have time for us Share
read moreTax the Rich Animation
Watch Sean Hannity go nuts over the animation. Sisters and brothers: It seems appropriate at this sorry moment in U.S. tax history to revisit how we got here. One way to review would be to read Sam Pizzigati’s The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970 (Seven Stories Press, 2012), an excellent and lively history of American tax policy that draws its analysis from the insights of labor history as well as tax policy proper. A short cut would be to view (and...
read moreUnderage Drinking
Dave Zweifel’s Plain Talk: Drinking age law makes criminals of our young adults Share
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