by Dave Johnson | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness ("Jobs Council") issued a report calling for fewer regulations and lower corporate tax rates. This doesn't have to be a bad idea. The Report The Jobs Council report, Road Map to Renewal makes a number of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 19, 2012 | Blog
Mitt Romney's ultra-low tax rate on his ultra-high income is reviving questions about the breaks and perks that the wealthiest of the 1% receive from the rest of us. One of these is a special low tax rate for investments -- as if anyone needed special tax incentives...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
The United States is losing ever more jobs and becoming ever less competitive as our universities are cut back and companies move R&D jobs to Asia. We lost 687,000 high-tech manufacturing jobs lost since 2000. Universities cut back 20% on public research. 85% of...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 17, 2012 | Blog
Congress is back in session and Republicans are right back to shutdown threats. Once again Republicans are trying to use shutdown threats to bust unions (the 99%), once again doing it for pay, for a specific company (the 1%). Funding for the Federal Aviation...
by Dave Johnson | Jan 13, 2012 | Blog
What would Martin Luther King do if he were alive today? Monday is the Martin Luther Kind national holiday, when we mark his birth and reflect on the ongoing movement for civil rights. human rights and economic opportunity and equality. King worked hard to help poor,...
