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The Fiscal Cliff Debate Borders on the Surreal

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. How ridiculous is the fiscal cliff debate? The answer is that it’s off-the-wall crazy. Consider the following. The tax increases and spending cuts that will go into effect as part of the fiscal cliff are the absolutely...

So DO Tax Cuts Create Jobs?

In Wednesday's debate Mitt Romney repeated his claim that cutting individual and corporate income taxes creates jobs. But when you look at what actually happened, the periods when we had the highest tax rates were the periods we had the greatest job and economic...

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: Workers Blocking...

Mitt Romney: Magic Man

"I’m gonna float like a butterfly and sting like a bee; George can’t hit what his hands can’t see; Now you see me, now you don’t; He thinks he will, but I know he won’t." ~ Muhammad Ali At last week’s presidential debate, Mitt Romney floated like a butterfly and stung...

Casey Mulligan: Wrong Again on Minimum Wage

In yet another attack on the minimum wage, New York Times Economix blogger Casey Mulligan argues that the failure of part-time employment to continue to increase at the end of 2009 is proof that the July 2009 minimum wage increase prevented 800,000 part-time jobs from...

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