Stone Age Chronicles

Some of the worst offenders are Florida, where the top 1 percent pays a 2.1 percent tax rate while the bottom 20 percent of households pay 13.5 percent; Illinois, 4.1 percent and 13 percent, respectively; Nevada, 1.6 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively; Texas, 3 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively; and South Dakota, 1.9 percent and 11 percent, respectively. Washington state though, is the worst, where the richest 1 percent pay a 2.6 percent tax rate while the poorest 20 percent pay a whopping 17 percent in taxes.

Interesting to note: In that paragraph of states where the inequity is the worst, five out of six of those do not have a state income tax, which means those states get their funds from other forms of taxation which are more regressive by nature (like higher sales taxes).

Only nine states have no income tax, altogether, and those four the paragraph didn’t mention aren’t doing too hot in ITEP’s report, either:

Alaska: 7.0% (bottom 20) vs. 2.2% (top 1)

New Hampshire: 8.3% vs. 2.0%

Tennessee: 11.7% vs. 3.1%

Wyoming: 8.3% vs. 1.5%

(I do wonder why Illinois, which is the one exception in that paragraph, is so bad, though. Anyone?)

But, yeah, those states are just where it’s the worst. As the article’s headline indicates, it’s a problem everywhere.

(via boehner-trollololll)

odinsblog:

THIRTY REPUBLICANS voted to allow corporations to become an extension of our court system in October of 2009.  They voted to give Wall Street corporations the power to arbitrate rape cases outside a US Court of law.  Don’t take my word for it, look up the bill yourself.(Amendment number 2588, H.R. 3326) 

(pictured: Jamie Leigh Jones, Haliburton/KBR gang-rape survivor)

THE GANG OF THIRTY WHO VOTED AGAINST GANG RAPE VICTIMS AND FOR THE RIGHT OF WALL STREET CORPORATIONS TO TRY RAPE CASES IN THEIR CEO’S OFFICES. And a few choice comments from Emma about them:

Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Nay
Well no surprise here.  Lamar Alexander is the same jackass who said on Face the Nation that he still support Randy Paul in spite of Paul’s comments that he would like to turn back the clock on the Civil Rights bill.

Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Nay

Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO] Nay

Sen. Samuel Brownback [R, KS] Nay

Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY] Nay
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Nay
Senator Burr is no friend to women.  First of all he voted for corporations to have the right to hold their own kangaroo courts instead of having rapists tried by a real court of law.  Then just a few day’s later, he informs us that violence against women is a pre-existing condition.

Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA] Nay
Like all the other pigs, Chambliss’s piggery is not limited to excluding young female rape victims from their constitutional rights.  On the don’t ask don’t tell law [It’s ok for homos to serve and die in our military as long as they keep their mouths shut.] Chambliss “expressed his concern that repealing the rule would pave the way for allowing “alcohol use, adultery, fraternization, and body art” in the military”
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Nay
Are you kidding?  if the is re-elected then the people of Oklahoma are brain dead. Coburn is a member of the religious cult, the FAMILY he assisted in negotiating the bribe paid to Ensigns lover’s family.  He cares about life and he votes to uphold the rights of corporate America over those of a young woman who had been gang raped and then held prisoner by Halliburton?

Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] Nay

Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Nay

Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX] Nay
This man is such a whore for the RNC that if they told him to cut off his head he would ask when.
Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID] Nay
another pig republican who supports corporate rights over those of a young rape victim.
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC] Nay
Carolina like his buddies  he prefers Wall Street to the Constitutional Rights of young women.   Middle Class.org gives DeMint an F for his voting record for every single year that he has held office.

Sen. John Ensign [R, NV] Nay
Well what do you expect from a poor little rich boy whose daddy owns Las Vegas Casinos? Ensign’s mommy and daddy paid off Sonny boy’s lover and her family with a $100,000 bribe.

Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Nay

Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC] Nay

Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH] Nay
And yes, this is the same jackass who, if Obama and his corporate centrist Clinton regurgitated Congress had gotten their way would have been a member of the Cabinet.  If you recall, Gregg accepted then position and then turned it down—most likely he NEVER intended to serve on Obama’s cabinet.  He just want to embarrass Obama.

Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK] Nay
This is the guy who thinks that it is just fine to throw the Geneva Conventions in the toilet.  He said that he was more outraged by the outrage regarding Abu Ghrab that he was the inhumane treatment of the prisoners. No surprise that he would think it is just fine for a bunch Halliburton employees to rape a young woman and instead of the perpeterators having justice in a US court, allowing Halliburton lawyers to be her court..  

Sen. John Isakson [R, GA] Nay
He blathers on about how he supports life and then he throws away the rights of a young woman who has been gang-raped in favor of Halliburton’s right to hold their own Kangaroo court.

Sen. Mike Johanns [R, NE] Nay

Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] Nay

Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Nay

Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Nay
If the people in Kentucky don’t know enough by now to not vote against this jackass, the are not educable.

Sen. James Risch [R, ID] Nay

Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Nay
Another big evangelical hypocrite Republican piehole who doesn’t think that women even deserve to have access to  our court system for acts of violence against their bodies—that’s are real Christian attitude, now isn’t it?

Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Nay

Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Nay
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Nay
How could John Thune, an evangelical Christian with two daughters, Brittany and Larissa, listen to the testimony of Jamie Leigh Jones and choose to deny her the right to full representation in  our courts?  I wonder how Mr. Thune would have voted if one of his daughters were gang-raped by 7 men.  I wonder if he would still have thought that it was ok to leave her up to the mercy of Halliburton’s kangaroo court?
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Nay
Are you kidding?  This guy has his name in the DC Madams black book.  No surprise here that he would vote to support a corporation’s rights over those of a young female rape victim.

Sen. Roger Wicker [R, MS] Nay

 #honest rape #legitimate rape #forced rape

Ah, yes, the Republicans for Rape. It should also be noted that this gang of 30 was all men. All of the Republican women in the Senate — including the ultra-conservative Kay Bailey Hutchinson — voted the other way.

(via recall-all-republicans)

justinspoliticalcorner:

A Republican New Hampshire state legislator told a county convention Monday evening that kindergarten leads to higher crime rates.

Rep. Bob Kingsbury (R-Laconia) told the Belknap County Convention that research he’s been conducting for the last 16 years has led him to believe that kindergarten programs leads to higher crime rates, theLaconia Daily Sun reported. Kingsbury, one of the more conservative legislators in the Tea Party-controlled House, said that his analysis was of local crime rates in communities that offered kindergarten versus those that do not offer the educational program.

“We’re taking children away from their mothers too soon,” Kingsbury said, who also linked higher crime to the lack of boxing classes in high schools

Kingsbury’s comments came during a discussion over whether or not to build a new county jail and why inmate populations continue to rise. He said he shared his research with other legislators when he tried to fight mandatory kindergarten in the state.

Kingsbury, 86, has a history of supporting ideas that differ from his fellow legislators. In January, he partnered with two allies of birther queen Orly Taitz to push a bill partially ending the direct election of U.S. senators. Kingsbury said that he believed that all U.S. Senate candidates should first be picked by the state legislature and then put up for popular vote.

Both Democrats in the race, Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley, have called on Lamontagne to address the comments while condemning Kingsbury. Hassan called Kingsbury’s comparison “quite frankly ridiculous” in a statement and suggested that Lamontagne will try to roll back kindergarten requirements as governor.

Cilley went on Twitter to express her support for Kindergarten. “Just to be clear, I absolutely support kindergarten, and do not believe it increases crime,” Cilley said in a tweet.

h/t: John Celock at Huffpo

ooooooooooooo …. K

(via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

rhrealitycheck:

by Robin Marty

The New Hampshire state House has turned into an “all abortion, all the time” legislative session, as it voted this week to pass bills on “informed consent,” a 24 hour wait period prior to an abortion, and a 20 week ban based on the unproven claim of fetal pain.

+6s (x3) or the completions of +6s to New Hampshire.