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Progressive Breakfast

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: Don't Lower Taxes...

Don't Lower Taxes For Billionaires. Double Them.

Forget the "Buffett rule." It's not enough. What's more, "letting the Bush tax cuts expire for the rich" isn't enough either - although it might get us halfway there. As for that "Simpson Bowles" so-called "deficit reduction" plan: It's a hoax, another ploy to give...

Can We Get Tougher on Crime in the Suites?

Federal regulators have actually been cracking down somewhat lately on financial industry fraud. But the power-suited executives responsible for that fraud are still paying no personal price. What should we, as a society, be doing about all those reckless financial...

Loophole Kabuki: Schumer's Clever Strawman

As Atrios says, you've got to love the framing of this article: WASHINGTON — Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Senate’s third-ranking Democrat, threw cold water Tuesday on what had been an emerging consensus for a bipartisan deficit- reduction plan — an...

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