by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 11, 2012 | Blog
What the Republican budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan doesn't say is in many respects more ominous than what it says—and on taxes, perhaps more indicative of the truth. For while the Ryan slash-and-burn budget proposal doesn't come right out and say it, it could have...
by Bill Scher | Apr 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: DeMarco Sits While...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
I was on the Thom Hartmann TV show Big Picture last night, discussing a new banker Super PAC. I wrote a piece for AlterNet, New Super-PAC Threatens to Destroy Candidates Who Side With the People Over Wall Street. The basic story here, (click through for the whole...
by Bill Scher | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
When George W. Bush accepted the nomination for President at the 2000 Republican National Convention, he declared: "On principle, no one in America should have to pay more than a third of their income to the federal government." Bush was able to pass tax reform that...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 10, 2012 | Blog
In 2010 the men's magazine Esquire enlisted Lawrence O'Donnell, along with a panel of Republicans and economically centrist Democrats, to duplicate the anti-Social Security efforts of the Simpson/Bowles Deficit Commission. Now the magazine is at it again, with an...
