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President Embraces Corporate Tax Rate Cut President proposes corporate tax reform in exchange for infrastructure spending. NYT: "Mr. Obama outlined the terms of his tax plan in early 2012 during the presidential election, when he said the corporate tax rate would be...
Mr. Obama: Jobs, Please, Not Preemptive Concessions
President Obama took his case for jobs to Chattanooga, Tenn., yesterday, with an Amazon warehouse as a discordant backdrop. The president repeated his powerful case that to rebuild the middle class, we need a serious long-term strategy.
Bankers: The Real House Thieves of New Jersey
Write a cookbook, go to jail? David Dayen points out the absurdity and hypocrisy behind the Obama/Holder Justice Department's decision to indict two stars of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" on charges of mortgage fraud while Wall Street's crooked bankers still go...
The President, Chattanooga, Amazon And Job Creation
The President visits Chattanooga today to continue to promote his job-creation campaign. But Amazon? Really? Why is President Obama using Amazon to tout his ideas for job creation? President Welcomed To Chattanooga Today in Chattanooga the President visits an Amazon...
Five Messages About Public Education That Don't Sell (And Ones That Will)
[The following is from a talk given at a meeting of the Young Elected Officials last week in Washington, D.C.] Thanks for having me here today. I'm feeling a little out of context at a meeting for the Young Elected Officials. And it's not because I'm not an elected...
Happy Birthday Medicare!
Today is the 48th birthday of Medicare! President Johnson signing the Medicare program into law, July 30, 1965. Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library. Before Medicare only half of older Americans had any health insurance at all. The elderly had on average half the...
Reversing the Tide that Swamped Small Boats
Barack Obama said in a speech last week that America should invest in itself and build out from the middle class. His ideas so frighten Republicans that they’re threatening to wreck the U.S. economy.
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Obama To Propose Compromise For Jobs Obama today to propose new "grand bargain": corporate tax reform for infrastructure investment. Reuters: "Obama wants to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent down to 28 percent and give manufacturers a preferred rate of 25...
Cruel Arithmetic and President Obama's Big Speech
Last week President Obama gave a speech at Knox College in Illinois in which he announced plans to return his focus to the economy. The agenda he outlined centered on policies to rebuild the middle class leading to growth "from the middle out," as he put it. The basic...
This Is Who They Are: Not Our Role To Rescue Students Drowning In Debt
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) thinks that it is not Congress’s job to keep college affordable. That’s what she said at a House Education and the Workforce Committee markup last week of a GOP-backed bill that would prevent the U.S. Department of Education from enforcing...
