Social Issues

It used to be that low state income taxes and practically non-existent property taxes, at least compared the neighboring county of Westchester in New York, was more than enough to lure Manhattan's hedge fund billionaires out to Greenwich, CT.  But, it seems that a festering pension crisis and resulting state income tax hikes in Connecticut has resulted in many of NYC's gazillionaires choosing a trophy 3,000 square foot apartment in "the city" over a 10,000 square foot Greenwich mega-mansion.  

The Military/Security Complex Is Bankrupting America

Corrupt politicians and neoliberal economists tell the lie that America cannot afford Medicare and Social Security. How then can America afford the $1.1 trillion annual military/secrity budget?

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/05/30/us-eyes-1-1-trillion-national-security-budget-for-2018/

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The monetary problems plaguing the state of Illinois (not to mention its public pensions) have been widely documented here over the past few years, and today the rating agencies finally noticed, when in the span of a few hours, first S&P, then Moody's downgraded Illinois to BB+/Baa3, respectively, both just one notch above junk, the lowest rating ever given to a U.S. state, as both agencies cited a long-running political stalemate over a budget shows no signs of ending.

Authored by Khadija Khan via The Gatestone Institute,

Authored by Josie Wales via TheAntiMedia.org,

Last week, Human Rights Watch penned an open letter to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees voicing their strong opposition to a new bill that would make it nearly impossible to sue police for constitutional violations. Senator John Cornyn (R-Tex.) and Representative Ted Poe (R-Tex.) proposed the identical bills on May 16th “[t]o protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.”