by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Minimum Wage
This week North Carolina's Tom Tillis won the state's primary to become the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Then he appeared on Chuck Todd's show on MSNBC and was asked about raising the federal minimum wage. Tillis replied with the standard Republican...
by Dave Johnson | May 8, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
A huge, huge giveaway of tax money to giant corporations is rolling down the tracks at us. If it happens, this tax giveaway would be second only to the bank bailouts on the list of schemes to give money to private corporations. (Except, with the bailouts we got some...
by Dave Johnson | May 6, 2014 | Blog
Wall Street wants people to think that budget deficits are a problem. But the deficit that is causing trouble for our economy, costing us jobs and driving down our pay is the trade deficit. And we have an enormous, humongous trade deficit. I mean, huge. I mean $40...
by Dave Johnson | May 5, 2014 | Blog
Wednesday May 7 is Fair Trade Day. Add your voice to the movement to stop "Fast Track," which will be used to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership corporate dominance treaty through Congress. There is a “Fair Trade rally” in the Upper Senate Park in Washington, D.C. at...
by Dave Johnson | May 2, 2014 | Blog
Republicans aren't for things. Instead they run from one hysterical anti-something scream to the next. They have shifted from the "noun-verb-911" of the Bush years to "Obama said you didn't build this" road and bridge, then to "Obamacare failed" and after Obamacare...
