by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 27, 2011 | Blog
Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan's finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do. Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction. By Sam Pizzigati How much of their mega-million incomes did...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 26, 2011 | Blog
Are we headed towards banks too big to save? Check out Simon Johnson on "Geithner's Gamble" (below, emphasis added.) Big banks seem like Mr. Magoo of the old cartoons, blindly careening from one crack up to another, leaving ruin in their wake. Now they are headed back...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
We are all under attack, from public employees in Wisconsin and several other states, to the DC budget-cutters (just a few weeks after giving a huge tax cut to the rich) killing off NPR, slashing the EPA, consumer protections and so many other things government does...
by Bill Scher | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
Speaker John Boehner is presently soliciting questions on YouTube and Twitter (using the hashtag #askthespeaker), and he will answer the ones which get the most votes from his YouTube page on Tuesday. I have a few. I bet you do too. * If you really believe that "we’re...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2011 | Blog
When Congress goes back into session next week, the Senate will be under pressure to compromise with the House on a sweeping set of cuts to the 2011 budget. But there is little room for compromise with a budget plan that in so many ways does serious harm to people and...
