eric.openflows

In the 2010 tax year (paid/filed in 2011):
Bank of American made $4.1 billion in profit and paid $0.00 in taxes.
Exxon Mobile made over $30 billion in profit and paid $0.00 in taxes.
General Electric made over $5 billion in profit and paid $0.00 in taxes.
Boeing made over $2 billion in profit and paid $0.00 in taxes.

Openflows, the worker-owned cooperative I work with made $12,000 in profit and paid over $3,000 in taxes.

Something is very very wrong with this picture.

It's time we tell the richest of society and the largest, most profitable corporations to start paying their fair share. No more bullshit about balancing the budget by cutting back on critical social programs.

The reason we have no money is that we're allowing the rich and the largest corporations to steal from us!

Enough! Tax those with the money, stop the war on the working and middle classes.

Either we stand up and demand justice or we are doomed. Either we speak truth to power and demand action, or we accept our fate as a permanent underclass.

Which side are you on?

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US Labor Department Demands Refund in Maine Mural Dispute
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/04-11
WASHINGTON — If Maine Gov. Paul LePage doesn’t wish to display a mural depicting the state’s labor history, then the federal money used to create it should be returned, the U.S. Department of Labor says.

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6 herbs and spices that could improve your health
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/04/04/9-healing-...

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HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST (AND 9 OTHER THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME)
http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-...

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and for today's photo

Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/technology/04library.html

The perspective from this article is really off. They talk of the Google book project as the only effort to create a public repository of digitized books, to the point of starting off by suggesting that now that a federal judge in New York has derailed Google’s plan that the dream of of a universal library dead.

Really? have you never heard of project Gutenberg, the Internet Public Library or the Open Library Project? Chalk up another one for clueless journalism.

and speaking of clueless...
Transocean Ltd. gave its top executives bonuses for achieving the "best year in safety performance in our company's history" — despite the explosion of its oil rig that killed 11 people, including nine of its own employees, and spilled 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42393722/ns/business/

sigh, our world is doomed.

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today's photo

Scooby, drunk again, is just begging for some meddling kids to do an intervention

Sometime this week I'll be getting back to longer posts, but as I start to recover from being sick I don't want to push things too far too soon.

Today's tabs:

The 10 most segregated urban areas in America
The new census numbers provide a sobering reminder of how separate white and black America still are
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/03/29/most_segregated_c...

The No-Baby Boom
A growing number of couples are choosing to live child-free. And you might be joining their ranks.
http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201104/no-baby-boom-n...

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a few stale links from my open tabs

Post no Bills
http://i.imgur.com/SVaVo.jpg

9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/9-bills-creationism-classroom

Nobel Committee asked to strip Obama of Peace Prize
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/304909

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110322/wl_nm/us_venezuela_chavez_mars
Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

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