by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 15, 2009 | Blog, Economy
The last time I made a trip to Home Depot was for a space heater for my bedroom, and I did what I suspect many people are doing on purchases like this: In addition to comparing the price tags, looking for the "Energy Star" label and asking whether this heater is any...
by Bill Scher | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The hot You Tube of the day -- dug up by The Plum Line, and spreading like wildfire -- is Sen. Joe Lieberman supporting the expansion of Medicare to 55-64 year-olds ... a mere three months before he announced his opposition to it yesterday. Of course, Lieberman needs...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog, Making it in America
Those advocating capitualtion on trade and manufacturing are hard at work. From the National Journal's Congress Daily today, Trade Restraint? Those who follow U.S.-Chinese trade frictions must be working overtime these days. The number of high-profile trade complaints...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The $149 billion number - the amount of revenue the CBO estimates the excise tax will bring in - has becoming gospel in Washington. But there's a very good chance the number is overstated, possibly by tens of billions of dollars, and the mistake seems to have been...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
The battle to resist the excise tax continue, with a front line of resistance forming in the House and Senate. Efforts include the movement to drum up support for the Sanders-Franken-Brown Amendment, which replaces it with a high-earner tax similar to that contained...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog
Kirsten Powers has an editorial at the New York Post attacking the excise tax. "(N)no topic has gotten more ink during the health-care debate than cost," she observes. "This question has become the obsession distracting us from the moral imperative to provide health...
