by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
One of the conservative goals former President George W. Bush was unable to get through the Senate was "making the tax cuts permanent." He only got them passed -- using Senate budget reconciliation rules -- by employing a budget gimmick to mask the 10-year cost....
by Terrance Heath | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Conservatives who squawk about the deficit — and Democrats who should know better, but squawk anyway — tend to do so selectively. That is, they tend to focus only on spending. But spending is only half of any deficit equation. After all, a deficit is...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
We all pay a huge "hidden" tax when we burn oil and coal. Oil companies get the money. This is holding our economy back. Today when we burn oil or coal we put the toxic waste that results straight into the air. This causes damage to all of us, in many ways. First, of...
by Mary Bottari | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
Submitted by Mary Bottari on March 8, 2010 - 09:06 Watching the devolution of the bank reform bill in the U.S. Senate has been painful. Banking Chairman Chris Dodd’s original proposal unveiled last year had numerous strengths, most significantly the removal of bank...
by Bill Scher | Mar 8, 2010 | Blog
There were two ways last month's health care summit could have been a success. Republican leaders actually would support legislation that incorporated some of their ideas. Or, in the far more likely event that the GOP continued it's full-court obstructionist press,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 7, 2010 | Blog
The White House wants to require firms that do business with the government to pay decent wages. That could work — if we go after all pay that's indecent. Labels can often cloud reality. Take the labels of “private” and “public” sector....
