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Conservative Tax Tricks – Did Tax Cuts Grow The Economy
It's Tax Day, so let's talk about taxes. Conservative ideology says cutting taxes makes the economy grow. This Tax Day let's explore whether this is, in fact, the case. In the last few decades we as a country have conducted textbook scientific experiments with taxes....
Republican Strategy For A Budget That Destroys Medicare Say It Saves Medicare
You are a congressperson. You just voted for a budget that would destroy Medicare. Then you traveled home this week to meet with your constituents. Most of them like Medicare. What do you tell them? Tell them you want to "save Medicare." Bloomberg reports: House...
Progressive Breakfast - 4/18/2011
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: Conservative Tax...
Al-Jazeera Commentary After the Presidents Speech on Deficits and the Budget
We provided live commentary for Al Jazeera English at the conclusion of the President's speech on the deficit and the Federal budget. That speech was Thursday, but we weren't able to receive and post the video until now. It's below: I know I look ghastly, darling. It...
TV Interview On The IMF and World Bank International Echoes Of Domestic Banking Policies
Did an interview with RT Today on the meeting of the International Monetary Fund, and on the ways that IMF and World Bank policy reflect the same combination of austerity economics and a 'liberalized' financial sector that we're seeing here and in Europe. The video is...
Executive Pay Excess A New Battlefront
Taxpayers, once again this year, are subsidizing over-the-top CEO pay by the billions. But now on the table: a promising new proposal that encourages corporations to share that excess — or else. The chief executives of America’s top 500 companies, Forbes...
Conservative Tax Tricks – Are We Broke
Conservatives have been saying lately, "We're broke," and need to cut back on the things we (government) do to protect and empower each other. They have a unique definition of the word "we" when applied this way to Americans. For them "we" doesn't mean "We, the...
Obamas Open Mic Night
Of the two top items in my newsreader, I'm not sure which I like best. First, there's President Obama's open-mic incident after his big speech. Apparently, Obama had what he thought was a private conversation with campaign donors, but it turned out the microphone was...
New Poll Shows Strong Rejection Of House GOP Plan To Dismantle Medicare
Today, a new poll was released by Democracy Corps and the Campaign for America's Future gauging public reaction to the Republican budget expected to pass the House today. What follows is an analysis of that poll from Democracy Corps pollster Stan Greenberg and CAF...
GOP Rep Claims Vote For Budget Does Not Mean Vote For Anything In Budget
I think this quote wins The International House of Pancakes Award for Most Creative Waffle: “I don’t necessarily think that just by voting for the budget, you’re signing on” to his proposals, said Missouri Representative Jo Ann Emerson... Of course, silly. Why would...
