by Joshua Holland | Nov 15, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Progressive Vision
Rip-off: High Out-of-Pocket Social Costs are a Stealth Tax on the Middle Class and the Poor (via Moyers & Company) Editor’s note: This is the third piece in a series looking at the fact that while Americans enjoy a lower overall tax burden than that of the...
by Joshua Holland | Nov 1, 2013 | Conservatism, Health
How a Wildly Misleading Obamacare Horror Story is Born (via Moyers & Company) Far too many breathless news stories about insurance plans being “canceled” or people facing “sticker shock” fail to convey even the most basic context: this is almost exclusively a...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 29, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
The Great American Ripoff: The High Cost of Low Taxes (via Moyers & Company) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series on the high cost of low taxes. The American people pay a similar amount for social services – health care, retirement security, disability and...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 11, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) once claimed that “80 to 85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists” and called those who worship in them “an enemy living amongst us.” He held McCarthyesque hearings into the supposed “radicalization of...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 9, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Seven days into a government shutdown, and 9 days away from a potentially catastrophic breach of the nation’s debt limit, and the question everyone is asking is: who will blink first? The White House says that it absolutely will not negotiate over a debt limit hike....
