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Constitution doesn’t say, “We the millionaires…”
It’s good to be a millionaire in America. A new report from the Center for American progress shows that millionaires are paying – as a share of their income – 25% less in taxes than they were in the mid 1990’s – 25% less! But that’s not all – according to data from the IRS – in 2009 – 1,400 millionaires paid absolutely no taxes at all. So just like some of the biggest transnational corporations in the world like GE and Exxon Mobile – 1,400 millionaires were off the hook and didn’t have to pitch in one penny to Uncle Sam.
In fact – the average federal income tax rate for millionaires in America is around 22% - far less than what your typical schoolteacher in Wisconsin is paying. And despite the fact that a majority of Americans support tax hikes on millionaires – our millionaires – as well as billionaires – and transnational corporations – once again escaped without having to make one sacrifice in the name of deficit reduction like the rest of us.
Last time I checked – the Constitution doesn’t say, “We the millionaires…”
-Thom
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Conversations with Great Minds - Bob Edgar, President & CEO-Common Cause 
Daily Take: A $1 Million Mystery surrounding Romney
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Highlights Of The Upcoming Week ... August 8 - 12, 2011
Monday
Hour One: "Taking Our Country Back - Wisconsin Recall election tomorrow!" Mike Tate, Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Hour Two: Where are the jobs and who are the real job creators? Ryan Streeter
Hour Three: How "movement politics" can help us take back America Jim Dean, Democracy for America
Tuesday
Hour Three: Free Trade...who wins, who loses? Bryan Riley, Heritage Foundation
Wednesday
Hour Two: Why are conservatives attacking the National Institutes of Health? Andrea Lafferty, Traditional Values Coalition
Hour Three: What is authentic conservatism and why did the Republican Party abandon it? Tom Pauken
Thursday
Hour Three: Geeky Science Rocks - Is Mars weeping salty tears?
Friday
"Brunch With Bernie". Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-VT) takes listener calls
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The Daily Stack 
Quote: "A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities." -- Charles de Gaulle.
Hour One: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie:    campaign site.
Speech: " A Rendezvous With Destiny", Franklin D. Roosevelt, 27 June 1936 speech to the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hour Two: ALEC Exposed in New Orleans Rep. Mark Pocan, State Rep (D-WI, 78th District)
"Taking Our Country Back" Shelly Moore, English Teacher and a board member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council
Article: " Bill of Rights" Amendment 8: " Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.".
Hour Three: Wisconsin Recall Elections...secret dirty right wing tricks revealed! Graeme Zielinksi, Communications Director, The Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 2, section 3. " ... [The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper ..."
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The Stock Market tumbled - is this the beginning of a double dip recession?
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Thom Hartmann: Why the Stock market plunged
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Thom Hartmann & State Representative Mark Pocan: ALEC exposed in New Orleans
Thom Hartmann & Graeme Zielinski: Wisconsin recall election dirty right wing tricks revealed!
Brunch with Bernie: August 5, 2011 Part 1
Brunch with Bernie: August 5, 2011 Part 2
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