by Bill Scher | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog
"We're Not Going To Reduce Taxes for High-Income People." -- Mitt Romney on CBS' 60 Minutes, 8/12/12, at the 12:41 mark above Mitt Romney was trapped. The Tax Policy Center smoked out his tax plan -- no matter how many unspecified tax loopholes Romney says he would...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 13, 2012 | Blog
Paul Ryan's looks are often compared to an actor's, and that's no accident: He's being groomed for the role of a lifetime. When Mitt Romney accidentally introduced Ryan as "the next President" he may have been displaying the same predilection for accidental honesty -...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 12, 2012 | Blog
Did Republicans work to help our President fix the economy and the country after he took office, in the midst of two wars, a financial crisis, and an economic emergency? This is a question every American should consider. The month President Obama took the oath of...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 12, 2012 | Blog
More than 35,000 working people attended Saturday's Workers Stand For America rally in Philadelphia – the birthplace of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights – to demand an economy that works for all of us. This rally was called to support America's Second Bill of...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 12, 2012 | Blog
The United States already sports an exceedingly rich people-friendly tax structure. But America's rich seem to have far more friendly tax models in mind. Like Singapore. Why do the mega rich in the United States feel so put upon? Their incomes are rising, after all,...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 10, 2012 | Blog
I'm probably going to take this just couple of steps too far. But it's too hard to resist, and I think its a valid point. Back in 2007, right-wing water-carrier Dinesh D'Souza made a big splash when he published The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its...
