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It's Time To Update How We Fund Transportation Projects
Ninety-five years after the institution of the first gasoline tax, what we're paying to maintain and improve the network hasn't kept pace. A bill pending in the House calls for an update.
Help the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Help You
Every day there's a new big bank outrage. Well, today we can report two facts about life in our nation’s capital. One will surprise you in a good way. The other will make you wonder how anything so two-faced can go on in a democracy.
Money Can’t Buy Votes
Vulture capitalist Tom Perkins revealed his plan to crush the uppity 99 percent and make America what he would he would call a decent place for billionaires. He believes billionaires should get a vote for every dollar they pay in taxes.
Progressive Breakfast
Bipartisanship Afoot on Minimum Wage, Jobless Aid Obama to meet privately with Boehner today. Bloomberg: "President Barack Obama will host House Speaker John Boehner at the White House today for a closed-door meeting as lawmakers weigh the administration’s call to...
The Next Obama Budget, Part 2: Is the "Era of Austerity" Really Over?
President Obama's 2015 federal budget comes weeks he after declared inequality “the defining moral challenge of our time.” Early reports about the budget show no signs of such broad moral sweep or scope.
How TPP Would Harm You At the Drug Store and On The Internet
We know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership has an intellectual property section that will override government rules that limit the ability of giant corporations to trample the interests of smaller competitors and the public.
Dark Money Groups to Get Clarity From the IRS; Outrage Ensues
Social welfare organizations are allowed to influence elections to a degree, but can’t make electoral politics their “primary focus.” The problem is that standard hasn’t been well defined.
A Death Cult Run By Billionaires
Right wing ideologues are no long just preaching their beliefs and trying to persuade people to go along. They know they cannot allow facts and knowledge to be shared with the public or the results of their handiwork will be obvious to all.
Progressive Breakfast
Trade Talks Spin Wheels TPP negotiators report little progress during talks in Singapore. Kyodo News International: "Countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations remained apart over thorny issues, including tariff removal and...
The Next Obama Budget, Part I: Yes, The Left Killed the Chained CPI
Progressives campaigned aggressively to remove the chained CPI cut of Social Security benefits from this year’s federal budget because they view the document as rhetorical as well as practical.
