by Jeff Bryant | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog, Education
On Tuesday Sam Seder and I had a brief discussion during his daily web broadcast The Majority Report that touched on some points I made in my post here last week The Empty Rhetoric of School "Reform" (with broken links fixed – my apologies). We ventured into other...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog, Economy
What was the lesson of the 2010 election? Since the election conservatives and the DC opinion elite have been claiming that the public voted for budget cuts. But before the election they ran ad after ad saying Dems cut your Medicare and didn't provide jobs. Now every...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog
Like I said earlier, the truth about "Tax & Spend Conservatism" is that it isn't about raising or cutting taxes, but about whose taxes are raised and whose taxes are cut. It's about, as Robert Borsage put it, who gets hit with the tab for the great...
by Terrance Heath | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog
Last week, I wrote of strange fiscal shenanigans in the reddest of the red states; like tax increases in Mississippi and increased government spending in Texas. "So," I asked, "why are Texas and Mississippi having serious budget problems? And why are...
by Robert Borosage | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog
Common sense is an endangered species in today’s budget frenzy. Inside the Beltway, millions of dollars have gone into a concerted campaign to elevate hysteria about deficits, in an effort to roll Congress into deep cuts in entitlement programs. On the right, the Tea...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 30, 2011 | Blog
Today is a national call-in day to let Senators know that there is support for keeping Social Security out of the budget debate. Here are some facts. Social Security cannot borrow, so it does not contribute to the deficit. In fact, working people have been paying a...
