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The Washington Note[The Washington Note] Barack Obama believes in fairer and more progressive individual income taxation, taxation which will see every American once again paying his or her fair share. How can anyone but the wealthiest of Americans be satisfied with an economy which has seen forty percent of all economic growth over the past 20 years go to only the top one percent of American families?

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John Redwood's Diary[John Redwood's Diary] John Redwood Speaks on Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation ...: Gentleman seems to be putting forward a rather socialist message, which I welcome, in suggesting that tax should be progressive rather than regressive. What about taxing the rich a lot more and insulating poor people’s houses?

TheMonographhttp://www.themonographpolitical.com/2008/03/discourse-no-1.html [TheMonograph] Discourse No. 1: That progressive philosophy is the basis for the third leg of the liberal stool: political religion. Social progression has taken such a great hold of their political decisions that it has given rise to a dangerous sort of religiosity in their party.

Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lieshttp://freethemarketman.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/setting-the-stage-for-american-history/ [Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies] Setting the Stage for American History: Poynings’s Law (1495), which established the model for the control of colonies by the English government, extended to Ireland the repressive and absolutist measures current in England, and required all legislation in the Irish Parliament to receive prior approval from the Privy Council in England. When, a century and more later, England acquired transatlantic territories and Englishmen fled there to escape the economic effects of mercantilism or the repressions of the Privy Council, the Star Chamber, or prerogative will, it was the English subjugation and domination of Ireland that furnished the earliest precedents and models for attempted imperial control of the peoples in America.

Appetite for Lifehttp://appetiteforlife.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/from-cnnmoneycom-who-the-candidates-really-listen-to/ [Appetite for Life] From CNNMoney.com: Who the candidates really listen to: Following his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Sperling lent his talents to the Hollywood-version of the White House as a consultant and writer for “The West Wing.” That job, he said, did as much for his personal life as his time in the White House did for his professional one.

Democrats & Liberals:http://www.watchblog.com/democrats/archives/005875.html [Democrats & Liberals:] Market Principals and Healthcare.: Smith supported the idea of progressive taxation. Rich and powerful elitists control and manipulate the Republican agenda and they don't like progressive taxation so you never hear that as part of the free market mantra.

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The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review[The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review] Dominic Hilton asks, is Ralph Miliband's Socialism for a Sceptical ...: The world is long overdue an explanation of the mysterious relationship between hokey Native American screeds and books with chapter titles like "Mechanisms of Democracy" and "Constituencies, Agencies, Strategies". Weekdays you vocally - and democratically - endorse monolithic technocracies.

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