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Pfizer Merger Prompts Tax Reform Talk Dem candidates oppose Pfizer merger. The Hill: "The $160 billion deal, announced Monday, would be the largest-ever corporate inversion ... Clinton said that in the coming weeks she will 'propose specific steps to prevent these...
Pfizer Buying Allergan So It Can Pretend To Be Irish In Tax Scam
The resulting company will be located where it is located now. It will make and sell products in the same places it makes and sells them now. The same executives will occupy the same buildings. It will receive the services...
A Progressive Majority Waiting To Be Convinced Government Can Work
A Pew Research Center survey released Monday is not surprising to those who have followed our Populist Majority polling monitoring project. It shows support for a progressive government, but distrust that it can work.
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Clinton, Sanders Spar Over Taxes Clinton proposes tax credit for family caregivers. Reuters: "...Clinton on Sunday proposed a tax credit offsetting up to $6,000 in costs associated with caring for elderly and disabled family members, and allowing caregivers to accrue...
Who Impugns Hillary's Integrity?
In the last Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton accused Bernie Sanders of impugning her integrity by raising her support from Wall Street bankers. But it isn't Bernie who is doing the impugning, it's her Wall Street donors themselves.
Welfare Reform's Broken Promises Exposed Again
One of the remarkably few efforts to examine how welfare recipients actually fare once they get back into the workforce uncovers the inconvenient truth behind right-wing rhetoric about aid to low-income people.
Wingnut Week In Review: Ugly Americans
In the worst of times, we need leaders who call us to heed “the better angels of our nature.” In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, right-wing media, officeholders, and candidates have instead embodied the term “ugly American.”
Shouldn't Social Security Recipients Get A CEO-Sized Raise?
Next year Social Security recipients get a zero cost-of-living-allowance, but CEOs just got a taxpayer-subsidized raise. Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposes matching that raise for seniors. Which side is your representative on?
Is Senate Cafeteria Contractor Still Violating Labor Rules?
Even after 34 senators wrote a letter to the (foreign-owned) contractor that operates the outsourced Senate cafeteria, the workers had to file another labor rights complaint.
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Sanders Makes His Case Sen. Sanders defines and defends democratic socialism. The Atlantic: "...Sanders praised Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson for wielding the power of the government to create jobs and lift Americans out of poverty ......
