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David Corking

Op-Ed Columnist - The End of Philosophy - NYTimes.com | April 2009 - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07Brooks.html

Culture

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  • It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      This makes no sense - perhaps Herbert doesn't want us to reason about it!
  • hard for them to appreciate that most people struggle toward goodness, not as a means, but as an end in itself.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 08 Apr 09
       
      This is certainly a vital question, but I don't think that link is hard, but instead obvious.
  • David Corking on 08 Apr 09
     
    A little pompous, but provoking and informative all the same.
Tom Trewinnard

Op-Ed Columnist - An Egyptian for Unesco - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...07iht-edcohen.html

UNESCO culture Egypt Israel Hosny

shared by Tom Trewinnard on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Tom Trewinnard on 07 Sep 09
     
    Good opinion piece on Farouk Hosny's controversial candidacy to head UNESCO.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...16krugman.html

human rights justice abuse of power

shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 28 Mar 09
     
    Paul Krugman says something about Obama's statement that there would be no widespread investigation of Bush administration abuses that should be common sense, but sadly isn't, and so badly needs to be said. Found on Furl.
Bakari Chavanu

Bernie Sanders Flirted With 100% Marginal Tax on the Rich, Maximum Wage - Bloomberg Pol... - 0 views

www.bloomberg.com/...l-tax-on-the-rich-maximum-wage

shared by Bakari Chavanu on 30 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • “No. That's not 90 percent of your income, you know? That's the marginal.”
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 30 Nov 15
       
      Marginal tax is simply the amount of tax paid on an additional dollar of income. As income rises, so does the tax rate. This is different than a flat tax rate where you pay the same rate of tax no matter what your income level is.
  • Sanders is described as wanting to “make it illegal to amass more wealth than a human family could use in a lifetime.” He would do that, the article said, with “a 100 percent tax on incomes above this level ($ one million per year)” and “would recycle this money for the public need.”
  • he still had the issue on his mind while serving in the House in 1992, entering into the Congressional Record a Los Angeles Times op-ed written by Sam Pizzigati, the author of The Maximum Wage. In that piece, Pizzigati details President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s proposal for a “100% war supertax,”
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  • Pizzigati noted that there’s been momentum in recent years to cap executive salaries and bonuses but that “Sanders saw the importance of thinking about that much earlier than everybody else.”
  • Benjamin Spock, who advocated capping incomes and inheritances. Spock believed that “not only should every family of four receive a minimum income of $6,500 annually but the wealthy should be entitled to a maximum income of $50,000 and a minimum annual inheritance of $55,000,” according to a Burlington Free Press article from September of that year.
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