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Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving — and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it’s not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it’s irresponsible not to know.

Apr 04, 2014

Michelle Rhee, Washington Post
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The coming firestorm over new power-plant regulations won’t be a genuine debate — just as there isn’t a genuine debate about climate science. Instead, the airwaves will be filled with conspiracy theories and wild claims about costs, all of which should be ignored. Climate policy may finally be getting somewhere; let’s not let crazy climate economics get in the way.

May 11, 2014

Paul Krugman, New York Times
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Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don’t live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

May 19, 2014

Cecily McMillan, via phone from Rikers Island jail as she awaited sentencing. Mashable interview
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is.

Nov 19, 2013

Barack Obama, Wall Street Journal CEO Summit
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Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they’re played out.

Nov 25, 2013

Vaclav Smil, WIRED interview
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One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

Sep 30, 2013

Barack Obama, Speech from White House briefing room
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We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Aug 26, 2012

Grover Norquist, CBS 60 Minutes
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We taxpayers find ourselves shouldering the burdens of the nation while wealthy special interests are able to avoid paying taxes, shifting their fair share, plus many of the costs of their own businesses, such as environmental cleanup, onto working people. This goes quite beyond taxation without representation, for the problem is not so much that our interests are being neglected, but that our interests are being squarely attacked and damaged while we subsidize our attackers. It is un-American in all its aspects.

Mar 13, 2000

, Speech at a Campaign Finance Reform Rally in Harrisburg, PA
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Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.

Aug 03, 2011

Sullivan. Martin, Politico
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