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... a crisis of overproduc- 220 qui parle fall/winter 2011 vol.20, no.1 tion to slash wages and benefi ts, bust unions, deregulate industries, and garner large tax cuts. In the long term, these tactics worsened the crisis by shrinking workers’ purchasing power. They also set...

... both the UC system and California State University.7 These cuts are a “best case scenario” and could become much deeper if his proposed tax extensions are not passed in the 2012 election. In the meantime, the Berkeley administration has started an initiative called “Operational...

... and justice," Douglass continues, "the. North were permitted to impose a tax of ten dollars for each person imported, with which to swell DOUGLASS' DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THE PRO-SLAVERY CHARACTER 149 the coffers of the national treasury, thus baptizing the infant Republic...

... they view as motivated by and emanating from urban centers. Because they are economically and politically isolated from power, rural residents—in some ways rightly—conclude that increases in taxes do not benefit their communities. Therefore, increasing taxes to finance more government services, taxes...

... turpitude, the Supreme Court did not adjudicate the issue until 1951 in the case of Jordan v. DeGeorge. A native and citizen of Italy who had lived in the United State since 1921, DeGeorge was convicted twice of violating the Internal Revenue Code by failing to pay tax on his sale of alcoholic...

... an unreliable partner for uc.”4 With state funds drying up due to ris- ing unemployment, the spiraling mortgage crisis, and a steadfastly anti- tax yet otherwise nearly nonfunctional state government, the University of California turned with new purpose to raising pri- vate funds from, as the campaign...

... successful in providing a decent education, as at the UK’s Open University, it does not break even—far from it. Why? Open University courses are built by teams of research- ers, are annually refreshed, and are intensively staffed by high-level academics. OU is an expensive tax-supported operation...

... of a controlling minority that cannibalizes revenue from the country’s lands and extends its parasitic operation through the ex- propriation of citizens’ tax into a system of private wealth. Its for- mal inauguration started with the Magna Carta; today the erosion of public agency and public space has found...

...). Given its sprawling size and meager tax base, Libertador could no longer provide for both the poor and for big business, and as neoliberalism took hold under Perez, so too did deindustrialization and the rise of a service economy, which also fed into the economic consolidation of Chacao...

...- Vogl: The Sovereignty Effect 129 prises, and to perform radical redistributions with tax reforms. Far beyond these markers, they also began the great politics of de- regulation and of the liberalization of fi nancial markets—through repealing the antitrust laws, removing the separation between...

... in the future. As Meister has shown in his writings about the relationship between debt and taxes, this is in fact how a college or university education is sold as an asset today, at public and pri- vate institutions.11 Because the historical remainders of injustice can often be found in consolidation...

... as beauty, as dishonest as whores.6 Gloss- ing Scarry’s appreciation of fl owers’ perfectly gaze- sized propor- tions, François focalizes “the special capacity fl owers have not to be special—not to tax but to remain adequate to imaginative powers”; not, in other words, to fi x us...

... to the categories of asylum seekers, refugees, and applicants for family unification. The category of guest workers made it possible to argue that since the newcomers contributed to the welfare state via income taxes, they should enjoy full civil and social rights. 19 The Working Group reasoned that foreigners...

... spending of tax money, it would then be in the interest of tax- paying citizens to have such an amendment passed. The second is the intro- duction of a Kantian form of homo oeconomicus that incorporates norms of reciprocity and fairness into its actions and is thus capable...

... when they go—and there will be no second attempt at Keynesian- ism from that quarter. Statehouses have turned markedly to the right, and the only economic plan in sight is tax cuts followed by austerity measures. The fi nancial needs of colleges and universities will be pitted...

... quickly declared the humanity of all subjects, even the most vulner- able, the most criminalized, and the most rebellious. Reforms tar- geted conditions associated with khedival rules: reformers banned the use of the whip against peasants, fi xed the taxes that peasants were...

...” in the form of aid for adaptation and mitigation for low-lying postcolonial nations to be funded by 322 qui parle spring/summer 2011 vol.19, no.2 an international tax on the aviation and maritime activities domi- nated by industries in the global North. Tuvalu has not entirely...

... and big business. Neoliberalism—reinvigorated by the passing of tax cuts for the ultra-rich, the right-wing Republi- can Party taking over of the House of Representatives, and an on- going successful attack on the welfare state—proceeds once again in zombie-like fashion to impose...

..., neo-imperialist militarism, and fun- damentalist Christianity. As I write this essay, the television trum- pets news of a regressive tax cut, an increase in pay for a military busily dropping bombs upon Iraq, an end to federal funding for international family planning...

... felt up to the wink and the nod, the holy trinity of the resurgent American Right: free-market capitalism, neo-imperialist militarism, and fun- damentalist Christianity. As I write this essay, the television trum- pets news of a regressive tax cut, an increase in pay...