Comments on: MaxTax Is a Plan to Use Our Taxes to Reward Wal-Mart for Keeping Its Workers in Poverty http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189455 Leen Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:28 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189455 <p>Somehow Rahm must be holding Obama’s family jewels in the palm of his hand? Just do not get it.</p> <p>Unless they wanted to watch what Rahm does up close. What an underminer</p> Somehow Rahm must be holding Obama’s family jewels in the palm of his hand? Just do not get it.

Unless they wanted to watch what Rahm does up close. What an underminer

]]> By: timbo http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189327 timbo Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:00:15 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189327 <p>I guess Max’s sell out is becoming even more obvious by the minute. Hope his poor constituents notice. Or is it because they’ve cut back on education funding for his constituents that Max can get away with this?</p> I guess Max’s sell out is becoming even more obvious by the minute. Hope his poor constituents notice. Or is it because they’ve cut back on education funding for his constituents that Max can get away with this?

]]> By: hector1234 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189249 hector1234 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:46:02 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189249 <p>I agree. Awesome catch. Perhpas that’s why walmart supported an employer mandate, they had this out all the time. And it is easy to miss. Good work.</p> I agree. Awesome catch. Perhpas that’s why walmart supported an employer mandate, they had this out all the time. And it is easy to miss. Good work.

]]> By: JohnJ http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189242 JohnJ Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:29:06 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189242 <p>Someone pointed out a while back that the only thing that the ruling class hadn’t been able to do was not die like us peons.</p> <p>Looks like they found an alternative; help us die earlier!</p> <p>It’s kinda like the ones that can’t figure out how to get more so they have to settle with making sure the rest of us have less.</p> Someone pointed out a while back that the only thing that the ruling class hadn’t been able to do was not die like us peons.

Looks like they found an alternative; help us die earlier!

It’s kinda like the ones that can’t figure out how to get more so they have to settle with making sure the rest of us have less.

]]> By: fatster http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189196 fatster Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:51:53 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189196 <p>Really. Why doesn’t Obama just hold a nice ceremony, say some pretty words, hang the Medal of Freedom around his next and let him pirouette outta there? (The Medal of Freedom means so much since Dubya’s use of it, anyway.)</p> Really. Why doesn’t Obama just hold a nice ceremony, say some pretty words, hang the Medal of Freedom around his next and let him pirouette outta there? (The Medal of Freedom means so much since Dubya’s use of it, anyway.)

]]> By: Leen http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189176 Leen Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:57:17 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189176 <p>Why the hell does he trust Rahm?</p> Why the hell does he trust Rahm?

]]> By: fatster http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189151 fatster Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:09:48 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189151 <p>Talk about yr death panels!</p> <p><strong>Case Puts Texas Futile-Treatment Law Under a Microscope<br /> Statute Allows for Deadline on Care</strong><br /> By Sylvia Moreno<br /> Washington Post Staff Writer<br /> Wednesday, April 11, 2007</p> <p>AUSTIN, April 10 — “A 17-month-old deaf, blind and terminally ill child on life support is the latest focus in an emotional fight against a Texas law that allows hospitals to withdraw care when a patient’s ongoing treatment is declared “medically futile”</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001620.html?referrer=delicious" rel="nofollow">More.</a></p> Talk about yr death panels!

Case Puts Texas Futile-Treatment Law Under a Microscope
Statute Allows for Deadline on Care
By Sylvia Moreno
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

AUSTIN, April 10 — “A 17-month-old deaf, blind and terminally ill child on life support is the latest focus in an emotional fight against a Texas law that allows hospitals to withdraw care when a patient’s ongoing treatment is declared “medically futile”

More.

]]> By: fatster http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189149 fatster Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:02:03 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189149 <p>Oh, she inspired a generation and a half of us, with an assist from Sally Field, bless her.</p> Oh, she inspired a generation and a half of us, with an assist from Sally Field, bless her.

]]> By: skdadl http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189139 skdadl Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:37:41 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189139 <p>There was a woman. She just knew in her bones that every human being deserves respect — to our ruling classes, the most subversive thought ever let loose among the masses, but to the rest of us, the most liberating.</p> There was a woman. She just knew in her bones that every human being deserves respect — to our ruling classes, the most subversive thought ever let loose among the masses, but to the rest of us, the most liberating.

]]> By: bobschacht http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189132 bobschacht Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:11:44 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/11/maxtax-is-a-plan-to-use-our-taxes-to-reward-wal-mart-for-keeping-its-workers-in-poverty/#comment-189132 <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Bob in AZ</p> Thanks!

Bob in AZ

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