by Roger Hickey | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog
This morning President Obama signed an executive order creating a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. This commission is based on an idea promoted by two Senators, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog
Now is the winter of Democratic discontent. And the knives are out. Liberalism, the Wall Street Journal tells us, has cracked up once more. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069520491303964.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read Obama, sobered by trying...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 18, 2010 | Blog
Yes, there is a class war, Warren Buffett once said, and my class is winning. The IRS study of taxes paid in 2007 makes his point. The top 1% of taxpayers averaged about $138 million in income, and paid taxes at a rate of 16.6%. As Buffett says, their secretaries pay...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 17, 2010 | Blog
The British already have universal health care. So why do average life expectancies in the UK vary so dramatically by neighborhood? A new UK blue-ribbon commission has some answers to questions that Americans ought to be asking. Policy makers in the United States...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 17, 2010 | Blog
Evan Bayh abruptly announced he was quitting the Senate days before the filing deadline for his Senate seat, without notice to his constituents, to his colleagues, to his party's leaders or to the White House. He deprived the Democratic voters in Indiana who had voted...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 17, 2010 | Blog
An august group of conservative leaders released a statement early Wednesday asserting a recommitment to “the ideas of America’s founding.” The statement is meant to be a 21st-century version of a 1960 declaration that set the ideological framework that, among other...
