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MORNING MESSAGE: Who Is Keeping DeMarco In Charge Of Housing?
The 28 Billion Dollar Man Is Sen Shelby The Most Fiscally Irresponsible Politician Ever
Republicans love to say that nothing's more important cutting the Federal deficit. So why is Sen. Richard Shelby wasting $28 billion of taxpayer money? Shelby's used parliamentary tricks to put more than half of the nation's mortgages under the rule of an unelected official who answers to no one - except apparently Richard Shelby - whose wasting money like it's going out of style.
Good Jobs First: No Grand Bargain Without A Jobs Trigger
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Poll after poll shows that voters are concerned most of all about jobs and the economy. Yet in Washington and on the campaign trail, attention has turned to deficits and how to get our books in order.
Free Trade Or Democracy, Can't Have Both
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why.
Edward DeMarco Stop Standing In The Way Of Homeowner Relief
Today, we are calling on the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward DeMarco, to either move or be removed: Stop standing in the way of the mortgage relief millions of homeowners need.
Whiplash Mitts One Unshakeable Conviction
As a Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney should wear a warning label: "CAUTION: following changes in this candidate's positions could cause whiplash and other injuries." Seriously, you could hurt yourself trying keep up with the speed with which this gu
Mitt vs Mitt
And to think the Republicans called John Kerry a flip-flopper for saying he voted for war funding before he voted against it and are now very likely to put a ping-pong ball on their presidential ticket.
Why Not Completely Eliminate The Corporate Income Tax
Originally published at Capital Gains and Games.
Corporate tax reform as it's most often discussed these days sounds great in theory: Lower the overall tax rate and offset the budget impact by eliminating various special provisions.
Who isn't in favor of that?
As Greg Ip in the latest issue of The Economist notes, the answer is lots of people.
Not surprisingly but largely overlooked in the reports on the plan announced by the White House several weeks ago, the biggest opponents (other than House and Senate Republicans, that is) to any substantial corporate tax overhaul come from the corporate world itself: They are the companies, industries, and sectors that currently benefit from the current system at the expense of the corporations, businesses, industries, and sectors that don't get the same special treatment.
And that's just the beginning.
Progressive Breakfast - 3/1/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: Bankers Should Worry About Subpoenas, Not Drum Circles
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Bankers Should Worry About Subpoenas, Not Drum Circles
