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01/10/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Spanish Finance Minister María Jesús Montero addresses the senate on December 9, 2021 in Madrid. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Sept. 30, 2022

The country's finance minister said that looming changes are bound to make the tax code "more progressive, efficient, fair, and also enough to guarantee social justice and economic efficiency."

Spain's leftist coalition government on Thursday announced a series of downwardly redistributive fiscal reforms—including a temporary "solidarity" tax on the nation's 23,000 wealthiest residents—that lawmakers hope will ease the cost-of-living crisis hurting millions of working people.

30/09/22
Author: 
Friends of the Earth
My Money, My Say! poster

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) deductions are collected by the government and given to CPP Investments, an independent crown corporation tasked with investing our money on behalf of Canadians. The fund has grown to $523 billion making it one of the largest pension funds in the world.

Rather than use its huge power to help move Canada to a green economy, CPP Investments has chosen to support the polluting fossil fuel-based economy, while claiming climate change is important.

30/09/22
Author: 
Joe Matthews
US money - Photo by Pixabay

Sept. 28, 2022

Democracy vouchers can, in the short term, make campaigns fair, finally giving everyday people, and especially low-income people, a voice in our democracy.

Would our democracy work better if all of us were campaign donors?

That’s the proposition posed by democracy vouchers, an idea with Seattle origins that has reached the Golden State.

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29/09/22
Author: 
Jim Robbins
Wind turbines on the Whitelee wind farm in Scotland. Photo by Ian Dick / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
29/09/22
Author: 
Diana Johnstone
Shared sentiments. Scholz and Zelensky in Kiev, 14 February 2022. (President of Ukraine.)

Interesting and troubling development for sure, but it's curious (and troubling) that the Johnstone makes no attempt to offer--or direct readers toward--an alternative analysis of the crimes of Stalinism, which I do not consider crimes of socialism/communism. 

                 -- Gene McGuckin

Sept. 27, 2022

28/09/22
Author: 
Peter Yeung
Paris - Credit: Shutterstock

Note the article's discussion of how people's class status intersects with auto ownerships and use.

            - Gene McGuckin

 

 Sept. 26, 2022

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