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Is Media Telling Public The Real Tax Vote Story?

by | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog

Republican tax plans raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts on the rich. They just voted against tax cuts for people making under $250,000, and for tax cuts for people making more than that. Last month they filibustered the bill ending tax breaks for...

Romney Ethics At The Olympics

by | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog

Ed Kilgore is righteously irked about the latest idiotic right wing contretemps over the fact that Olympic athletes have to pay taxes on their medals: You could see this coming the moment Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform put out its press release on the tax...

Federal Spending Is Not Trapped by the Social Safety Net

by | Aug 2, 2012 | Blog

The nub of Bill Keller's recent essay on why Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid must be cut is a graph – taken from a report by a group called Third Way – that compares federal “investments” with “entitlements,” showing that one is in decline and the other is on...

Progressive Breakfast

by | Aug 2, 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: White House Can...

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