Tag: taxes

• We can haz society? Taxes, democracy & the Panama Papers

  What do you need to know about the Panama Papers? Let’s see, people who are richer than most of us can even imagine have an elaborate system to hide the trillions of dollars that we would need to tax if we wanted to, say, maintain our basic infrastructure (e.g., bridges, schools) and, you know, hopefully…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  April 6, 2016

  Uncategorized

  capitalism, democracy, Panama Papers, socialism, taxes

• Asymmetry of Victim Stories (or: why the rich get away with whining about taxes)

  I’m reading two great books about the power of story as an organizing tool in social change struggles.  One is smartMeme’s RE:Imagining Change (a guide for activists on story-based strategy), the other is It Was Like a Fever: Story-telling in Protest and Politics by Francesca Polletta.   Amongst other subjects, both Polletta and smartMeme discuss…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  January 5, 2011

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  asymmetry, entitlement, Francesca Polletta, Paul Krugman, smartMeme, story-based strategy, taxes, victim stories