by Isaiah J. Poole | Aug 9, 2010 | Blog
As the right continues to flail for new ways to justify its assault on progressive taxation, Robert Samuelson has come up with a doozy: If we raise taxes to reduce the deficit, "more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children." Imagine the TV...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 9, 2010 | Blog
Conservative economics has often felt like religious dogma, with its elevation of "a rising tide lifts all boats" to unintended extremes and its unfounded belief that lower tax rates create higher government revenue. But, at least as far as that second article of...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 8, 2010 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
"Stuff happens." - Donald Rumsfeld on the looting of Iraq following the U.S. invasion. Forget about "the Aughts." Never mind "the Naughts." The decade just passed — and which promises to leave a lingering, bitter aftertaste — deserves a better, more descriptive name....
by Richard Eskow | Aug 7, 2010 | Blog
They're too old to rock and roll, too young to ... ruin Social Security. Despite the scaremongers' attempts to incite generational war, people born between 1946 and 1964 are not going to destroy the Social Security system. The Baby Boom cohort isn't going to be a...
by Zach Carter | Aug 7, 2010 | Blog
Of all the accomplishments Elizabeth Warren has amassed during her lifetime, one of the most impressive is also one of the least well-known to the general public. Warren was a co-founder of Credit Slips, a very technical, influential blog on banking and bankruptcy....
