by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Who counts and who doesn't count? We hear so much about the "middle class" but rarely about the plight of the poor. And of course we hear again and again that the wealthy are "successful" and the "job-creators" who shouldn't be "punished" by being asked to give...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
The New York Times today is publishing yet again news about an important Democratic Party constituency, this time union members, threatening to sit on its hands in the November elections, giving Republicans a clear shot at a takeover of at least one house of Congress....
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
The contrast between an aggressive policy of jump-starting growth and putting Americans back to work and the old, failed trickle-down economics formula was on sharp display Thursday in a mini-debate on CNBC Thursday between Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect and...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Here is a tax trick you hear all the time: we shouldn't tax corporations because they just "pass the taxes along to consumers." Go to any of the usual anti-tax, anti-government sites and you'll see them trying to trick people with this. First of all, if companies...
by Bill Scher | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
As the President and congressional leaders propose letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year, conservatives in Congress are screaming "class warfare!" Of course, if establishing different tax rates for people with different incomes...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 17, 2010 | Blog
Sometimes our political commentariat seems to go fashion-crazy. When a new trend gets popular it overwhelms everything in its path: logic, poltical divisions, even expert opinion. The latest vogue is deficit reduction, and our nation's Anna Wintours tell us we simply...
