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Progressive Breakfast - 11/2/2011
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: Policing The 99%...
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: Policing The 99%...
Consumers Win Debit Card Victory But War Against Reform Continues
Sometimes, even an institution that is "too big to fail" is not too big to be influenced by energized citizens on a quest for basic fairness. With a national "move your money" day coming up on November 5 and facing the prospect of losing tens of thousands of...
Robert Borosage on Tavis Smiley Conservative Reverse Robin Hood Tax Plans
Institute for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on October 31 to discuss the tax and economic policies advanced by Republican presidential candidates and their impact on middle- and low-income people. He calls the flat-tax...
Republican Candidate Manufacturing Forum
After a decade of Republican policies that dearly cost the country's manufacturing sector, Republican Presidential candidates today offered ideas for reviving our country's jobs engine. Unfortunately those ideas are the same ideas that got us into this mess in the...
Rick Perry Standing Tall for the 1
Rick Perry’s Plan for the 1% Today, Rick Perry released his “Cut, Balance and Grow” economic plan. From his initial press release, this is clearly a plan designed for the wealthiest Americans. Perry would eliminate the estate tax that applies only to the wealthiest...
Is A Flat Tax Fair
Conservatives are always pushing for a "flat tax." It sounds so simple: One easy rate, so we all pay the same, easy to calculate... Get rid of deductions and lower the tax rates. So simple, but it turns out it is a simple trick, a scam to enrich the 1%, like so much...
Flatland USA Welcome to the Future Rick Perry-Style
Back when they were teaching gun safety to my generation, there was a term for people who ran or jogged while carrying a loaded weapon. The term was "idiot." And back when we were learning basic geometry they had a book called Flatland that told a story set in a...
How The Perry Tax Would Bankrupt Us [VIDEO]
On Wednesday, Robert Borosage joined the Thom Hartmann Show to discuss Rick Perry's new tax plan. Watch it below.
Sacrilege Wall Street Worship
Americans have been worshiping a bull. Too many citizens, and particularly politicians, prostrate themselves to Wall Street’s bronze idol. They revere financial titans who pay themselves and their minions millions to manipulate money and gamble recklessly. Politicians...
