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@jlpiraux@wallonie-bruxelles.social
2025-04-01 13:45:58

"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
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Opaque US anti-tax foundation to advise EU Commission | Corporate Europe Observatory
A US think tank that recently opened a Brussels office to lobby for aggressively lower taxes is received with open arms by the Commission. But who is behind the organisation, and who funds it? The Transparency Register fails to reveal dark money flows – in the Tax Foundation’s case from US right-wing libertarian sources – and as such clearly needs a make-over. 

@caroldib@mastodon.social
2025-04-19 17:06:55
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Graças Š magia do algoritmo o You Tube me recomendou essa joia da PBS!
“WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's influences on both new wave and hip-hop” …

Ilustração de divulgação do documentário We Want The Funk! Mostra mulher negra com cabelo black power. Seus óculos em formato de estrela refletem músicos. Ela usa batom vermelho e brincos grandes de argola. Sorri curtindo o som. A ilustração tem uma estética retrô.