| — | L’etica della politica e la responsabilità dell’esercizio del potere | Stefano Levi Della Torre |
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“Ora, nell’azione politica, l’etica è in primo luogo quella della responsabilità, in quanto riguarda la qualità dei fini che si perseguono, e in secondo luogo è quella dei principi, che tempera il cinismo dei mezzi necessari per realizzare i fini.”
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“Rimane decisivo per il PD adempiere alla responsabilità di costruire uno schieramento largo intorno a un programma di ricostruzione morale ed economica dell’Italia. Uno schieramento oltre i confini dei partiti. Uno schieramento in grado di raccogliere le energie positive, le forze fresche della società civile protagoniste della tornata delle elezioni amministrative e dei referendum. Uno schieramento largo e plurale all’altezza di una sfida di portata costituente, tanto sul terreno istituzionale quanto su quello economico e sociale. L’obiettivo delle forze politiche e sociali progressiste è avviare la costruzione di un’alleanza tra le persone che lavorano. Non un blocco sociale omogeneo e statico, ma un’alleanza tra interessi diversi, uniti intorno alle sfide del cambiamento progressivo. Un patto etico, politico e programmatico tra le persone per dare soggettività politica al lavoro.”
— Il PD e il governo Monti - Stefano Fassina -
“The reason that unemployment is high clearly has nothing to do with taxes. Consequently, there is no reason to think that reducing taxes further will do anything to raise employment by reducing the tax wedge.
Additional evidence on this point comes from a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on taxes paid by average workers in its 34 member countries. The data [above] are for a single worker without children.
As one can see, the United States is a low-tax country with a total tax wedge of 29.5 percent. Three-fourths of O.E.C.D. countries have a larger tax wedge on average workers.
I have also included the latest data on the percentage of workers employed as a share of the working-age population. I think this is a better measure of the health of the labor market than the unemployment rate, which goes up and down for a variety of reasons unconnected to taxes.
Here, too, there is little evidence that taxes affect employment one way or another. Almost half of the countries with a bigger tax wedge employ a larger percentage of their working-age populations than the United States does, and more than half of those with a smaller tax wedge have lower employment ratios. […]
There is simply no evidence that cutting taxes at the present time will do anything to raise employment.” - Bruce Bartlett: Taxes and Employment
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A lovely chart explaining common logical fallacies, including the often overlooked “Tu Quoque” and “No true Scotsman.” via @EbertChicago
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- Albert Einstein
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A peek into Richard Wurman’s “Cities: Comparison of Form and Scale” 1975.
via Paul Soulellis
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timemagazine reblogged alissamariet:
Great job, Alissa!
Photoshop CS4 and 5 + Adobe Illustrator CS4 + Wacom Intuos4 + Autodesk Maya 2012. 35+ hours.
Use ALL of the programs!
For my Tradigital class, we did this a while back and I just got around to fixing it up more. We had to each take an opinion on SOPA/PIPA and do a Time Cover for it. I went with a more extreme version of my opinion, which I will not go into depth on, in order to create a more attention-grabbing illustration.
I also decided to harken to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, a novel about a future in which books are illegal because the government controls all information that people receive, and if anyone is suspected of owning books, basically, firemen come and burn down their house. (When the law was first passed there were massive public book burnings.)
The art school experience is all the more complete now that I’ve done a political work.
TIME Magazine logo (c) TIME
Fahrenheit 451 (c) Ray Bradbury
Illustration (c) Alissa M. Terracciano 2012
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Codex Seraphinianus, “an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world,” written in asemic by artist, architect, & industrial designer Luigi Serafini, from 1976-78.
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“L’otto marzo & lotto ogni giorno”
