OWS Demands?

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Fred Cole

Posted February 27, 2012 at 7:46pm · Edited April 3, 2012 at 8:55pm · Just Curious

I listen to Glenn Beck in the car for brief periods. Today he was talking about some list of OWS demands. The list included an $18/hr minimum wage.

Anyone know the source of that list?

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The Logo: This doesn't answer your question directly, but here's a Sept. 1, 2011 post by DrewInWisconsin -- before OWS had started making much noise -- that speaks to its confused origins.

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/We-demand-.-.-.-SOMETHING!-.-.-.-but-we-re-not-quite-sure-what-it-is-yet

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Answer by Diane Ellis

Posted February 28, 2012 at 4:17am

The list of demands originated on an OWS forum, but they've since distanced themselves from the list. Here's the list:

Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers immediately.
Raise the minimum wage immediately to $18/hr. Create a maximum wage of $90/hr to eliminate inequality.
Institute a 6 hour workday, and 6 weeks of paid vacation.
Institute a moratorium on all foreclosures and layoffs immediately.
Repeal racist and xenophobic English-only laws.
Open the borders to all immigrants, legal or illegal. Offer immediate, unconditional amnesty, to all undocumented residents of the US.
Create a single-payer, universal health care system.
Pass stricter campaign finance reform laws. Ban all private donations. All campaigns will receive equal funding, provided by the taxpayers.
Institute a negative income tax, and tax the very rich at rates up to 90%.
Pass far stricter environmental protection and animal rights laws.
Allow workers to elect their supervisors.
Lower the retirement age to 55. Increase Social Security benefits.
Create a 5% annual wealth tax for the very rich.
Ban the private ownership of land.
Make homeschooling illegal. Religious fanatics use it to feed their children propaganda.
Reduce the age of majority to 16.
Abolish the death penalty and life in prison. We call for the immediate release of all death row inmates from death row and transferred to regular prisons.
Release all political prisoners immediately.
Immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Abolish the debt limit.
Ban private gun ownership.
Strengthen the separation of church and state.
Immediate debt forgiveness for all.
End the 'War on Drugs'.

Big Green: Just reading this...a rather incoherent set of demands. These demands include a maximum wage of $90/hr yet they want to tax the "very rich" at 90%. Assuming the very rich in this fantasy land make the $90/hr, they would only make $9/hr after the 90% tax which is less than the minimum of $18/hr. Brilliant.