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Dave Johnson, Campaign for America s Future: Conservatives are always pushing for a 'flat tax.' So simple, but it turns out it is a simple trick, a scam to enrich the 1%, like so much else that conservatives are selling. Don t fall for it - it means taxes will go up for the 99% of us who aren t really, really rich.'

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How the Austerity Class Rules Washington

Ari Berman, The Nation: 'In September the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan deficit-hawk group, held a high-profile symposium urging the Congressional 'supercommittee' to 'go big' and approve a $4 trillion deficit reduction plan over the next decade.'

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The Chamber Spends More Than $4 Million in Just Three Months Lobbying for Corporate Immunity to the Law

Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: 'Lobbying disclosure forms for the third quarter of 2011 are due tonight, and corporate America s tort reform lobby has so far topped the list of the most profligate spenders.... 'The U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform is topping that list, reporting shelling out nearly $4.2 million in July through August of this year' ... Often at the Chamber s urging, the Supreme Court has empowered corporations to force consumers and workers into a privatized, corporate-owned arbitration system that overwhelmingly favors corporate parties.'

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US Military Paid $1.1 Trillion to Contractors That Defrauded the Government

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: 'The Pentagon has paid $1.1 trillion to hundreds of defense contractors and their parent companies that have defrauded the government over the past ten years, according to a Department of Defense report released Thursday.... The Department of Defense reported that it has sanctions in place and several contractual and administrative 'remedies' are available to deal with contract fraud, but the report admits that 'it is unclear, however, that these remedies are sufficient.'

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'It Should Be Like This Everywhere': The Free Economy of Liberty Plaza Park

J.A. Myerson, Truthout: 'Just as important to the process is the economy that has sprung up at Liberty Plaza Park, the one-block-long strip sandwiched between Wall Street proper and the World Trade Center, where no one pays for anything.... If the process is the demand, then esteem for a robust welfare state providing equal access to free social services is easy to extrapolate, park to nation.... If the process is the demand, the ownership class might do well to take note: the people camped out in Liberty Plaza Park won t rest until they get it in line and it cuts right.'

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Who Is Demonizing the Rich?
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