by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog
We have two words for House Speaker John Boehner's proposal to resolve fiscal showdown. No deal. Campaign for America's Future co-directors Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey both condemned Boehner's latest offer, which would reportedly allow tax rates to go up on upper...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog, Chained CPI
Progressive Caucus member Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., is working to get her colleagues to sign a letter pledging to oppose a "fiscal cliff" deal that would include a particularly pernicious cut in Social Security benefits. It is pernicious because if it gets included...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
More than 30 of the wealthiest Americans have signed a letter to Congress and the Obama administration arguing that the estate tax should be raised, not lowered, especially at a time when much of the political establishment is calling for the already economically...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 10, 2012 | Blog
This week six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be strategizing over how to shift leftward the center of gravity in the debate over taxes and federal deficits. It is not enough, they argue, that some Republicans are grudgingly accepting the end of...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 4, 2012 | Blog
If any conference was in need of a disruption, it was the "Fix the Debt" roundtable held this morning in the bowels of the Grand Hyatt hotel in downtown Washington. It took a group of protestors—among them a couple of African-American senior women, a male college...
