by | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. You would think that Phil Gramm -- the former Republican Texas senator who was one of the authors of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget process from the late 1980s -- would know how the law bearing his name works. At the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 1, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Protect Social Security and Medicare, raise taxes on the wealthiest, create middle class jobs -- who could be against those things? The Congressional Progressive Caucus announced today a set of "Deal for All" principles that take a stand "against any plan that...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 31, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
The defense industry and its Republican allies in Congress are up in arms - metaphorically speaking,of course - over the possibility that an agreement which the GOP signed might actually take effect as agreed. They hate when then happens. So they're cooking something...
by | Jul 26, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and GamesThe Senate yesterday passed "The Sequestration Transparency Act" that requires the president to explain to Congress what he plans to cut to implement the sequester -- the across the board spending reductions that were...
by | Jul 24, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. Ask the question in the headline above to a politician, and he or she is very likely to respond with something about how the pressure of the intentional and inadvertent spending cuts and tax increases that are scheduled to...
by | Jul 18, 2012 | Blog, The Sequester
Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. There’s increasing nervousness on Capitol Hill these days about the one thing that has to be done on the budget before voters go to the polls. Unlike 2011, when multiple spending, tax and debt ceiling deadlines were...
