{"article":{"id":245897,"heading":"Video: Joshua Holland "The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy"","author":"www.booktv.org","created":"2011-05-17 08:27:06","modified":"2011-05-17 08:27:06","last_modified":"Tue, 17 May 2011 15:27:06","article":"

In World War II, corporations paid 50% more than individuals and families. By the time Reagan left office, individuals and corporations paid four times more. The jobs crisis is deep and structural.

The revenue and tax avoidance problem is cast as an overspending problem. Greedy teachers and firefighters are pillories while speculators and financiers are called \"system relevant\" and ignored.

Video: Joshua Holland \"The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy and Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America\"

BookTV presentation, 50 minutes, May 15, 2011

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Video: Nathan Hodge \"Armed Humanitarianism - The Rise of Nation Builders\"

BookTV presentation, 10 minutes, May 15, 2011

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Video: Noam Chomsky \"American Power and the New Mandarins\"

BookTV presentation. 1 hr 23 minutes, August 1, 2009

http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Watch\/10600\/American<\/a>+Power+and+the+New+Mandarins+40th+Anniversary+Talk.aspx<\/p>\n","contact":"mbatko@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.usuncut.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The effective tax rate is half the nominal corporate tax rate. Two-thirds of US corporations paid no tax. GE took a $3.2 billion corporate tax credit. l.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/05\/245897.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}