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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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World Social Forum

mercredi 6 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Learning from the successes and failures of the World Social Forum.

Accepting extremists

mercredi 6 novembre 2019 à 01:00

As the bullshitter constantly demonizes the press, the mainstream media bend over backwards to treat right-wing extremists as acceptable.

Waivers on Muslim ban

mercredi 6 novembre 2019 à 01:00

The bullshitter's men told the Supreme Court that spouses and relatives of citizens would be given waivers around his partial ban on Muslim visitors, but that appears to be bullshit.

Medicare pressure on employment

mercredi 6 novembre 2019 à 01:00

Both Sanders' plan to fund Medicare for All and Warren's plan are based on continuing the current practice in which businesses pay per employee. However, making businesses pay per employee creates an artificial pressure to reduce employment — for instance, to invest in automation. That is an undesirable side effect, and a very important one.

We ought to replace all per-employee taxes with a progressive tax on business income. This would eliminate the pressure to replace humans with robots and also promote competition by imposing higher tax rates on large companies.

Urgent: block anti-abortion extremist

mercredi 6 novembre 2019 à 01:00

US citizens: call on the Senate to block anti-abortion extremist Sarah Pitlyk's judicial confirmation.

If you call, please spread the word!