by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 15, 2012 | Blog
The Senate is scheduled today to vote on Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's "Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012," which seeks to enshrine into law the "Buffett Rule" that millionaires and billionaires should not be paying taxes at a lower rate than the people who work for them....
by Dave Johnson | Apr 14, 2012 | Blog, Making it in America
President Obama has been pushing policies to boost American manufacturing. Democrats in Congress are pushing a package of bills under the label "Make It In America." The Obama administration's Gene Sperling gave a big speech recently describing the vital importance of...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
The sweetheart deals just keep coming. Lawbreakers at one bank after another are let off the hook as their shareholders write a check. And then they go out and repeat the illegal behavior they promised not to do in the last settlement. It shouldn't be surprising that...
by Richard Eskow | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is the embodiment of today's Republican Party and everything it has come to represent. You name it, Christie's got it: Disingenuous, smug, nasty? Check. Robotic servant of the corporate class, foisting its lobbyists' prefabricated...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Apr 12, 2012 | Blog
This will make you long for the mythical days of "liberal media bias." A news story in The Washington Post this morning bashes the current debate around the Buffett rule in a classic case of conservative media bias. The story, in its too-cute lead-in, declares that...
