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...oppose the income tax? -Mike Phillips, Madison, Wis. Because I have a right to the fruits of my labor, and government does not. If you concede the principle of the income tax, you concede the principle that the government owns all your income and permits you to keep a certain percentage of it. God-given rights to our life and our liberty don't come from government...
That brings us to lesson No. 2. Early in the Great Depression, powerful voices at Treasury and the Fed argued that financial crisis was a necessary corrective. "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate," Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised President Herbert Hoover. "It will purge the rottenness out of the system." This time around, after Lehman went under, no one at Treasury or the Fed talked that way. Instead, policymakers in the U.S. and overseas agreed that the panic had to be stopped at any cost. And it was, through a bailout that placed trillions of taxpayer...
Megan A. Shutzer ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Dudley House. She is a member of Student Labor Action Movement. Geoff Carens is a union representative in the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
Those outside the Harvard community also protested Uribe by picketing on the sidewalk outside the Institute of Politics before the speech on Friday afternoon. Representing a number of different labor groups, immigrants’ rights organizations, and antiwar coalitions in Boston and Cambridge, they held signs in both English and Spanish with slogans such as “No Uribe, No More Death Squads,” and “Uribe: Fascist, Imperialist Worm...
Protesters leveled several different criticisms against Uribe, though the predominant issues were his labor policies as well as his recent pledge to allow the United States to use seven Colombian military bases in order to combat drug trafficking...