by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 8, 2016 | Conservatism, Jobs and Growth
The conservative push to put public transit systems under private management is not looking so good in Washington right now, as news breaks of widespread safety problems with a city bus service that is privately managed. All-news WTOP Radio published a report on its...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 7, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Tax Reform
It's no surprise that the chairman of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt, would use The Washington Post's editorial page to defend himself and his company from an attack from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who told the New York Daily News editorial...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 6, 2016 | Progressive Vision
[fve]https://youtu.be/U7PIwArgWDQ[/fve]Jacob Hacker discusses "American Amnesia" with OurFuture.org. This time of year, a whole lot of Americans are feeling taxed enough already. But the astonishing momentum of Bernie Sanders’s presidential candidacy reveals something...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 5, 2016 | Jobs and Growth
A call for a $1.2 trillion program of federal infrastructure spending is definitely not what you would expect to emerge from the think tank Third Way, the purveyors of austerity-lite, era-of-big-government-is-over centrism within the Democratic Party establishment....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 4, 2016 | Financial Reform, Tax Reform
The Panama Papers disclosures this weekend are giving the world a wider window into a world that is not new to the people who have been fighting against the schemes wealthy people and corporations use to shelter their money from taxes. These papers were leaked from...