Thursday, November 8, 2007

Interactive brilliance.


http://pol.moveon.org/pac/loopholecalc//comments.html?registered=1&petition_id=530&redirect_url=%2Fpac%2Floopholecalc%2F%2Fcomments.html&id=11643-7806092-FWA8uO

I have just gotten an email from moveon.org the much excoriated (by the fascist-controlled press and radical republican right) anti-fascist group.

It is very good, simple and effective. It's a calculator that figures what taxes you and I will have to pay thanks to the Alternative Minimum Tax (which is neither alternative nor minimum) vs. what investment bankers have to pay (their tax rate is pegged at 15%--roughly 333% less than mine) for the ostensible reason that their investments involve risk.

There is no art to moveon's communication. No fancy-schmancy "interaction-design." No obeisance to the fad of the day. Nothing in fact compelling at all. But a simple truth well demonstrated.

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