by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
Hours after I called attention to a column by former Reagan and Bush 41 economic adviser Bruce Bartlett that debunked the right-wing narrative that taxes on the wealthy are too high (it's quite the opposite), Citizens for Tax Justice released a preliminary report of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 31, 2011 | Blog
Common sense on taxing corporations and millionaires continues to come from surprising places, such as an article on the New York Times Economix blog by Bruce Bartlett, who had economic policy roles in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and who...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 26, 2011 | Blog
Shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, a roll call vote that some Republicans were not-so-secretly dreading began, and the public began to know the names of the senators who were willing to throw the middle class under the luxury bus for the corporate class that is the 2012...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 25, 2011 | Blog
When Elizabeth Warren, the White House adviser who is setting up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, went to speak before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce this morning, one of the things she compared the visit to was the Biblical story of Daniel in the lion's den....
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 23, 2011 | Blog, Economy, Making it in America
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer laid out his bottom-line principles for how he believed the deficit should be addressed in a speech today before the Bipartisan Policy Institute. None of the five elements he listed address what voters say is the No. 1 economic problem:...
