by Robert Borosage | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
Politics is not rocket science. Karl Rove and the political witch doctors like to pretend they can concoct mysterious potions to steal elections, but that’s just con man puffery. Politics really is mostly common sense. Democrats just got “shellacked” in an election....
by Robert Borosage | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
So now we have the deal. In a society of extreme inequality, the rich – well represented by a unified Republican claque – will make out like bandits: An average tax cut of $25,000 a year for the top two percent (with much of it in six figure numbers for the wealthiest...
by Zach Carter | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans are ready to mortgage the American economy to billionaires in exchange for a few months of unemployment benefits. This deal is easily the gravest economic outrage of the Obama presidency to date, and signals that...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
Until this week here is what we heard over and over (and over and over and over and over): Because of budget deficits (caused by tax cuts for the rich and huge increases in military spending) we have to cut spending, not invest in the American People, put off...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
You know what they always say: Pay now or pay later. Middle-class Americans may pay very dearly for the president's tax deal, and at the stage of life when they can least afford it. By providing a temporary cut in the payroll taxes that fund Social Security, this deal...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2010 | Blog
If you think the tax cut fight led to a bad deal… it may also lead to an expectation by conservatives they will finally be able to cut, gut or shut the government in the coming fight over raising the debt ceiling. The President and Democrats in Congress should take...
