Daily Archives: April 15, 2024

EQUITABLE TAXES ANTHOLOGY #1 April 15, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-equitable-taxes-anthology-1.html Move to Amend  4-15-24         We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.       – Leona Helmsley, billionaire real estate tax dodger Source: Ralph Nader images Happy Tax Day! Only kidding. The very rich and corporations try harder and are more effective in general in avoiding paying taxes than the rest of us. Here are a few numbers reflecting current tax priorities, legislative responses to promote tax fairness and economic and political equality, and how we, “the little people,” can become more active in promoting […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #174, APRIL 15, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-174-april-15.html Colin Beavan.  No Impact Man.  2009.Nick Dearden.  Climate-Wrecking Energy Charter Treaty.For The Nation magazine’s climate coverage, see The Nation.com/climate-update-signup. Dick’s Review of Colin Beavan.  No Impact Man.  2009.     I’m still unpacking boxes of books and found and reread a unique and inspiring recounting of one person’s attempt with wife and daughter during one year in NYC to do no harm to the environment and climate: no trash, no carbon dioxide emissions, no toxins!  That’s remarkable enough for recommending the book to you:  No Impact Man by Colin Beavan.  But two inseparable aspects of the book […]