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Announcing the "No Middle Class Health Tax" Initiative
Liberal/Democratic Washington policy thinkers appear close to reaching the consensus view that the Senate's excise tax on higher-cost health plans is a good idea. Here's the problem: The consensus is wrong. The so-called (and misnamed) "Cadillac tax" is unfair and...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/8/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. President May Announce Plans For Unused TARP Funds Before economic speech today, President Obama suggests unused, paid back TARP can go towards deficit...
Dude, Where's My $23.7 Trillion?
Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, doesn't think it is a good idea to audit the Fed. Speaking Monday he said, ... the Fed chairman also took a moment to repeat his objections to a bill in the House to audit the Fed. Much as he said during his confirmation...
Obama’s Jobs Summit: Jobs Now, Deficits Later
Last week’s job’s summit focused on the fierce urgency of now. And well it should, with 18 percent unemployment and underemployment. But Obama also seemed to understand how short term needs overlap with long term goals. There’s just one sticking point. The short term...
Message To Congress, Copenhagen: America is Cutting Carbon, One Way Or Another
The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And the timing of the announcement was no accident. Before the President travels to the Copenhagen climate summit, the...
Sen. Sanders: "You Think I'm Not Going To Get Too Many Contributions From Goldman Sachs?"
On Friday, Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Campaign for America's Future delivered the first round of petition signatures thanking Sen. Bernie Sanders for placing a "hold" on the nomination of Ben Bernanke for another term as Chair of the Federal Reserve,...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/7/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Proposal To Undercut Public Option Lambasted New compromise proposal would mean insurance exchange would only offer private plans. W. Post: "One potential...
The Estate Tax Battle: Who's Really Winning?
The U.S. House of Reps has voted to extend the only federal tax levy on grand accumulations of private wealth. But that extension essentially keeps in place all of George W.'s tax rate cuts on billionaire bequests. Congress flipped another page in the estate tax story...
Only 5% Of Spending In Afghanistan For Humanitarian Needs
On this week's edition of WHMP's The LiberalOasis Radio Show, Jo Comerford of the National Priorities Project discussed with me the fiscal ramifications of the increase of troops in Afghanistan, and expressed significant concern that the ratio of military to...
Progressive Breakfast - 12/4/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day Unemployment Ticks Down 0.2 Percentage Points In Wake Of Jobs Summit Unemployment rate ticks down. BLS release this AM: "The unemployment rate edged down to...
