by Dave Johnson | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog, Economy, Tax Reform, Trade
See if this business model sounds familiar: ● Close American factories and offshore production to a low-wage country with few environmental regulations. (Note: moving a factory out of the country "increases trade" and they say that's a good thing.) ● Replace...
by Terrance Heath | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. by saying, “this is not who we are as a party or a country.” Ryan is mistaken: Trump represents exactly what the GOP is, and what progressives must not let America become....
by Dave Johnson | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A "corporate court" has ruled that the U.S. must face $1 billion in tariff punishment because a law U.S. consumers wanted for protection of health and safety has cost foreign companies some profits. The U.S. Congress is being told they must repeal the law or we face...
by Bernie Horn | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
We all know that some guns should be banned or severely restricted. Machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, silencers, grenades, and many other types of extremely dangerous weapons were essentially banned by the commonsense National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934, a law that...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Education
For years, a lot of money, time, and energy have gone into a national campaign to discredit teachers unions by saying they protect bad teachers and do nothing to add value to our system of public education. Whole organizations have been created to advance this...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog
Hillary Clinton's op-ed in The New York Times Monday on how she would handle Wall Street and financial reform as president appears so far to have landed with a thud. There is little evidence that it has sparked the kind of political debate that would be warranted by a...
