Part of an my account of Occupy Chicago’s attempt to camp at the horse statue in Congress Park on Saturday evening. Click here to read via Chicagoist.
Even though Illinois businesses complained loudly and threatened to move out of state after the corporate income tax was raised to 7%, the increase didn’t seem to hit them that hard. Most of Illinois’ top corporations paid less than 2% of their earnings in income taxes to states across the country. Read all about it [...]
Last month, I finally finished Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse’s short but incredible novel about a spiritual journey and quest for the Truth that binds reality together. I don’t know why I didn’t read this ages ago. Now, I’m tackling Your Call Is Important To Us – The Truth About Bullshit. Highly recommended for anyone interested [...]
Republicans on a panel commissioned to investigate the financial crisis voted to ban words like “Wall Street” from the report, further helping fat cats to ignore their role in our crashed economy and shift the blame to the government and taxpayers who bailed banks and business out. Orwell would be proud.