by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 21, 2010 | Blog
Never before in modern American history, suggests a new look at America's highest 400 incomes from the IRS, have so few made so much at the expense of so many. Or paid so precious little in taxes. The IRS has released, with not a trace of fanfare, the latest figures...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2010 | Blog, Economy
One legacy of the Reagan tax cuts is that we stopped maintaining - and never mind modernizing - our infrastructure. As a result there is a LOT of work that needs doing. And there are a very, very large number of unemployed people. Hmmm... There are so many more ways...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 19, 2010 | Blog
Whirlpool, recipient of federal stimulus "smart grid" dollars, is closing an Evansville, Indiana freezer-topped refrigerator and icemaker production plant and moving the 1,100 jobs to Mexico. Whirlpool knows that taxpayers will shoulder the unemployment and other...
by Bill Scher | Feb 19, 2010 | Blog
The Huffington Post headline states "Public Option Support Surging In Senate" after 18 Senators, with more possible to come, signed a letter calling for the choice of a public health insurance plan to be included in the final health care bill. Now, a surge is not a...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog
It's been a fascinating anthropological exercise to watch the health excise tax concept (the so-called "Cadillac tax") keep its popularity among Democratic and liberals, even as one study after another discredits the assumptions behind it. It's the Democratic...
by Terrance Heath | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog
President Barack Obama doesn't begrudge Wall Street's banksters their bonuses. The president, speaking in an interview, said in response to a question that while $17 million is "an extraordinary amount of money" for Main Street, "there are some baseball...
