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Progressive Breakfast - 2/18/2010
Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to affect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. White House Health Care Proposal By...
Liberal Bashing
Now is the winter of Democratic discontent. And the knives are out. Liberalism, the Wall Street Journal tells us, has cracked up once more. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069520491303964.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read Obama, sobered by trying...
Top 1%: Lower Tax Rate Than Their Secretaries
Yes, there is a class war, Warren Buffett once said, and my class is winning. The IRS study of taxes paid in 2007 makes his point. The top 1% of taxpayers averaged about $138 million in income, and paid taxes at a rate of 16.6%. As Buffett says, their secretaries pay...
Health and Health Care: The Difference Matters
The British already have universal health care. So why do average life expectancies in the UK vary so dramatically by neighborhood? A new UK blue-ribbon commission has some answers to questions that Americans ought to be asking. Policy makers in the United States...
Bipartisan Blight III: Evan Bayh Bye
Evan Bayh abruptly announced he was quitting the Senate days before the filing deadline for his Senate seat, without notice to his constituents, to his colleagues, to his party's leaders or to the White House. He deprived the Democratic voters in Indiana who had voted...
A Conservative Manifesto That's Manifestly Off Base
An august group of conservative leaders released a statement early Wednesday asserting a recommitment to “the ideas of America’s founding.” The statement is meant to be a 21st-century version of a 1960 declaration that set the ideological framework that, among other...
Huge 2009 Budget Deficit -- Just One More Conservative Failure
Conservatives claim that President Obama "tripled the deficit" and point to the huge 2009 budget deficit as proof. They use charts that show the fiscal-year 2009 deficit, as reported in October was, indeed, about triple the prior year's borrowing. But the 2009 budget...
Huge 2009 Budget Deficit - Just One More Conservative Failure
Conservatives claim that President Obama "tripled the deficit" and point to the huge 2009 budget deficit as proof. They use charts that show the fiscal-year 2009 deficit, as reported in October was, indeed, about triple the prior year's borrowing. But the 2009 budget...
Bowles-Simpson Commission: Is The Deck Stacked Against Social Security?
Before tomorrow's expected executive order establishing a commission to reduce the debt, the White House has leaked the names of who wi
Paying For Tax Cuts At The Top By Cutting Pensions For The Rest
Today's new York Times has a front-page editorial calling for cutting the Social Security pensions of Americans and other things that we as citizens are entitled to. Many analysts say the president and Congress could send a strong signal to global markets by agreeing...
