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Taxing the oil companies hot air

February 3, 2006 By Mark Weisbrot And Dean Baker

Last October 12 U.S. Senators sent a letter to nine major oil companies, asking them to donate part of their record profits to help poor Americans faced with large increases in their heating oil costs this...

Conference asks: Is Wal-Mart good for America?

June 10, 2005 By Joseph Hancock And Martha Hancock

LOS ANGELES — The UCLA Labor Center here held a special conference on Wal-Mart, June 4. It was educational. It was emotional. And it was packed. Conference participants asked simply, “Is Wal-Mart Good For America?”

Hold your ground, refuse to surrender

April 15, 2005 By Mark Weisbrot And Dean Baker

Two leading Democratic strategists, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg, publicly took their party to task for its “just say no” approach to President Bush’s proposed privatization and benefit cuts. “To say there is no problem simply...

More on the socialist market economy

September 19, 2003 By Bruce Parry And Lenny Brody

We print another reply to Prof. Erwin Marquit’s People Before Profits columns on the “socialist market economy,” published in the PWW earlier this summer. The discussion will continue in subsequent issues. Socialism and commodity exchange

The truth about the unjust tax cut

December 19, 2002 By Marian Wright Edelman

Americans with average incomes over a million dollars will be handed an astonishing $121 billion in tax cuts in the year 2010 alone – more than all the rest of American taxpayers combined – according to...