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New chart from Tax Policy Center.
Obama vs. Romney on tax rates: As you can see, rates are largely the same—except for the nation’s richest and poorest. The poor would pay almost twice as much in taxes under Romney’s plan; meanwhile, the very richest in the country would be forced to cough up about 10% more of their income under Obama. The net effect? In short, Romney’s plan would reduce federal revenues to about 17% of GDP—down .9% from where they are now. Obama’s budget would raise revenues 19.2%, with most of that money coming from those making over $250,000 a year (Graphic and data courtesy of The Washington Post / Tax Policy Center).
Just so we’re clear:
If you’re in the lower 60 percent, your taxes will be lower under Obama than under Romney.
If you’re in the lower 90 percent, your taxes will be lower or roughly the same under Obama.
If you’re in the top 10 percent, Romney got yer back.
I registered to vote today due to a little prompting from GOOD. It was about time anyway since I’m starting to actually have an opinion about politics. There are certain issues that happen to be important to me - namely equal rights (particularly gay marriage), health care (birth control and the right for women to be pro-choice) and education - that certain candidates are being jerks about and I am not about to see any of them in office if I can help it. For the first time I’m actually looking forward to voting in November. Until then: Obama, will you be my Valentine?
(via barackobama)
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Financial Fitness Task 25: Make a Wish List to Curb Impulse Buys #30DaysofGOOD
You’ve already made a list of what you need; it’s time to make a wish list to help you decide what you really want. A new bicycle? A flight to New York? By setting clear, big-picture goals, you’ll have them in the back of your mind every time you’re tempted to buy the latest and greatest cat hairbrush.
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I got this tip in my inbox this morning and immediately made a wish list. Like, so immediate I didn’t even conciously decide to do it - it just happened.
Impulse buys are my weakness, but I know I can beat it! Let’s go!
What a world we live in, a world in which peeing on dead people yields more moral outrage than killing them in the first place.
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If you’re a fan of dark comedy, all the hand-wringing about preserving the dignity of our enemies after they’re dead can seem outright laughable. We allow—nay, encourage and demand, our troops to shoot people in the face, stab them in the guts, and bomb their homes. We ask them to do work that destroys families, communities, cities, and countries. We ask them to witness their friends and colleagues get slaughtered on the battlefield, and to see gore and trauma generally found in scary movies. What’s more, frequently we ask them to do all this when they’re still teenagers, too young to even drink a beer.
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More American troops now kill themselves than die in combat, and female soldiers are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a colleague than to be killed by the enemy. In short, the kids aren’t all right, and it’s time for everyone to stop being shocked when they behave in abnormal, terrifying ways. War is an awful thing that irrevocably changes and destroys people, and it yields horrific, destructive behavior. If you’d like to live in a world in which soldiers don’t pee on their dead enemies, then it’s your duty to fight for a world in which soldiers aren’t killing people in the first place.
Some pretty valid points.
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A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers is Truly Inspired
If your resolution this year is to write more, the challenge is twofold. Cultivating a daily practice takes discipline, while the search for inspiration can feel time-consuming and fruitless. Figment, a digital community for young fiction writers, is tackling both impediments with its new “Daily Themes” newsletter. Every morning between January 2 and March 30 Figment will hit subscribers’ inboxes with a different writing prompt, reminding aspiring writers to put their thoughts into words every day and giving them fresh guidelines to get started.
Joined. Look out for these!
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In 2006, citing the burden of “visual pollution,” São Paulo, Brazil, outlawed all exterior advertising in the city. Businesses said it would destroy them. Turns out they were wrong:
Five years later, have all the businesses in São Paulo gone under? Hardly. In fact, most citizens and some advertising entities report being quite pleased with the now billboard-less city. A survey this year found that a 70 percent of residents say the Clean City Law has been “beneficial.” “São Paulo’s a very vertical city,” Vinicius Galvao, a journalist, said in an interview with NPR. “That makes it very frenetic. You couldn’t even realize the architecture of the old buildings, because they were just covered with billboards and logos and propaganda. And there was no criteria.”
How about Times Square next?
Neat.
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Here at GOOD, we live every week like it’s sandwich week. We’ve weighed the merits of every sandwich within a four-block radius of our office, enviously eyed our coworker’s hangover-curing egg sammies, and asked the tough questions about our best-loved lunch food. Is a sandwich anything between two slices of bread? Does it require bread at all? Is a taco a sandwich? The answers to these questions and more are coming soon: Mark your calendars for GOOD’s official Sandwich Week, coming Sept. 26-30.
As we prepare ourselves for the carbo-load, we want you to weigh in on the sandwich that best represents your state. Later this month, we’ll compile your answers in a handy map of the United States of GOOD Sandwiches. We think it’ll pair pretty nicely with our United States of GOOD Beer.
This makes me so happy.
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These trashcans were designed by Keith Scharwath, guest art director on The Neighborhoods Issue, The Energy Issue, and The Cities Issue: Starring Los Angeles. Get out to the beach and check them out!
“Smartphones have been married with trash cans to create new smart trash cans that made their debut at Santa Monica State Beach on Tuesday,” Susan Carpenter reports.
Photo: “Smart” trash cans at Santa Monica State Beach. Credit: Heal the Bay
Who knows?
Also, does anyone else find it creepy that a bunch of people are celebrating a death right now? I understand the significance, but it freaks me out.
