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Class War: Politico Acknowledges Key To Democratic Party Success
In our post-mortem of the 2012 elections, the Campaign for America's Future was one of the few organizations willing to say that "class war" was not only the common theme of many of the Democratic Party's electoral successes but it is a strategy that the party should...
Will Social Security Cuts Be The Democratic Party's "New Coke?"
All the smartest people in the executive suites just knew that the taste of Coca-Cola needed "reform." Rival Pepsi was advertising to the "New Generation" and Coke's executives came to believe their product wasn't what the "cool" people wanted to drink. Everyone they...
Check Out The 'Executive PayWatch' Site
Take a look at the 2013 Edition of the website called Executive PayWatch from the AFL-CIO. This site, active since 1997, helps drive awareness of the huge wage gap between CEO pay and the average employee. Compare your pay to the pay of top executives. Heck, you might...
Progressive Breakfast
More Work Needed For Progressive Tax Code Corporations should pay higher taxes, argues James Livingston in NYT oped: "For most of the 1950s, corporate income at large companies was taxed at 52 percent ... by slashing corporate income taxes and forcing a new reliance...
Corporations: "Deficits Mean Austerity For Thee And Lower Taxes For Me"
Tax day. At a time when elites are lecturing us on deficits, giant corporations are demanding even lower taxes for themselves. Their message: "deficits equal austerity for thee and lower taxes for me." Tax "Reform" Giant corporations and opinion elites are calling for...
The Upside of Taxes
April 15 has never been a day for celebration, and it's especially tough to pay taxes when so many of us are struggling financially. But the real problem isn't taxation. Our real problem is the new "bipartisan" drive toward austerity.
A Budget To Keep America On The Road
If you were stuck on the Washington beltway during the evening rush hour yesterday, you might have suspected that the Washington Metro area's crumbling beltway had already begun to collapse. Fortunately, yesterday's gridlock wasn't the result of a beltway collapse or...
Elite-Pundit Deficit Frenzy Just Like "Run Up" To Iraq War
The "Grand Bargain" is about showing the world that we can hurt people, so they will know we are "serious." Reading Jason Linkins' HuffPo account of elite-pundit thinking about the "Grand Bargain," Passing 'Grand Bargain' Voters Don't Care About Is Critical To...
Obama's Budget Taxes The Rich
President Obama's budget proposal may have a lot of new concessions to Republicans, but on taxes, his flag is firmly planted where it has always been: Make the tax code more progressive. Already with ObamaCare and the fiscal cliff deal he has achieved the most...
Immigration Reform Rally Was Also About Youth and the Future
An estimated 60,000 converged on the Capitol on Wednesday to tell Congress to take legislative action to enact comprehensive and fair immigration reform. To borrow a line from so many of yesterday’s speakers and protesters, “the time is now.” But one group that...
