by Dave Johnson | Jul 14, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
Some people say that the Democratic Party doesn't really stand for anything. Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed and pushed as a Democratic presidential candidate, and has achieved results that could change that. The 2016 Democratic Party platform is a very progressive policy...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 12, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The draft of the Republican platform at first glance sounds pretty good when it comes to trade. So how do they thread the needle between assumed-candidate Donald Trump's words on trade and most of the party's – and Trump's own – actual positions? Those positions...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog, Tax Reform
All of us suffer consequences when corporations cheat. Silicon Valley's tech companies make a lot of money, but many of them dodge paying taxes. San Francisco is going to try to do something about it. Three supervisors are proposing that the city tax tech companies to...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
[fve]https://youtu.be/YmLHwZkonwY[/fve]Video: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on why we need to stop the TPP. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is likely to come up for a vote in the "lame-duck" session of Congress that follows the November presidential election. Will the...
by Dave Johnson | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, Trade
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the May trade deficit rose to $41.1 billion. This was a $3.8 billion increase from April's $37.4 billion. The increase included boosts in purchases of things we can't make here anymore, like cellphones and computers, as...
