by Bill Scher | Apr 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
MORNING MESSAGE: Make Mitt Pay His Fair Share OurFuture.org's Robert Borosage: "We saw the need for the Buffett Rule when Mitt Romney revealed his taxes. Worth over $250 million, Romney paid a tax rate of 13.9% on income of millions. The police who protect him pay a...
by Terrance Heath | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
I didn't think that anyone — not even her fellow Republicans — could top Michelle Bachmann's 2008 interview with Chris Matthews, in which she accused then-candidate Barack Obama — and certain members of Congress — of being "anti-American," and urged the media to "do a...
by Alan Jenkins | Apr 11, 2012 | Blog
Is there a house in your neighborhood that everybody hates to walk past? You know, the one with broken and boarded up windows, trash left to gather on the lawn, and grass so overgrown it’s becoming a habitat for rodents? If you have a house like that in your...
by Robert Borosage | Apr 11, 2012 | Blog
We have a lot of work to do in America: jobs to create, infrastructure to build, clean energy to generate, homeowners to save, teachers to hire and student debt to retire. And we can’t pay for it so long as we keep the Bush-era policy of absurdly low taxes for the 1%....
by Dave Johnson | Apr 11, 2012 | Blog
There's a lot of discussion right now about the "Buffett Rule." This is the proposed tax rule that says people who make more than $1 million a year should at least pay as much of their income in taxes "as their secretaries." The Senate is getting ready to vote on this...