by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 26, 2009 | Blog
The Campaign for America's Future is joining with our allies at Americans United for Change in asking you to flood congressional offices today and Tuesday with calls for immediate action on the economic recovery package scheduled for a House vote this week. The number...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 24, 2009 | Blog
It turns out reports that the Congressional Budget Office had found that much of the stimulus package to be voted on in the House in a few days would not be spent until after 2011 were incorrect. Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post reported late Friday: The nonpartisan...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 23, 2009 | Blog
While conservatives offer tax cuts as an all-purpose elixir, whether they make sense or not, the truth is that our tax code is out of whack and we should be thinking about progressive reforms. Laura Kalick, a veteran tax attorney based in Washington, has been thinking...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 23, 2009 | Blog
The missive that House conservatives issued early Friday may be called an "economic recovery plan," but it is as threadbare as the big discount goods store that went belly-up in my neighborhood a few weeks ago and is now in the final days of bankruptcy liquidation....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jan 22, 2009 | Blog
Conservative leaders are using news of a Congressional Budget Office report released this week to argue that much of what is in President Obama's economic recovery plan is a waste of money because most of the money can't be spent before at least 2011, and thus won't...
