Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnson
Nicholas Johnsonis best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner, 1966-1973, and his book, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set. He currently teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law, and since 2006 has posted over 1000 blog essays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth23 September 1934
CountryUnited States of America
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Colorado's economy had been growing faster than most other states long before it adopted TABOR. The claim that TABOR explains Colorado's prosperity in the 1990s -- and that other states can boost their economies by adopting TABOR -- isn't based on fact.
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Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.
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Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.
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If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there.
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In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
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Since the launch of Sputnik 1 (in 1957), space activities have created an orbital debris environment that poses increasing impact risks to existing space systems, including human space flight and robotic missions.
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Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies.
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All television is educational television. The only question is what is it teaching?
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Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.
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All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?
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The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.