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Mitt vs Mitt

And to think the Republicans called John Kerry a flip-flopper for saying he voted for war funding before he voted against it and are now very likely to put a ping-pong ball on their presidential ticket. Hypocrisy doesn't begin to describe it: Mitt Romney sparked...

Why Not Completely Eliminate The Corporate Income Tax

Originally published at Capital Gains and Games. Corporate tax reform as it's most often discussed these days sounds great in theory: Lower the overall tax rate and offset the budget impact by eliminating various special provisions. Who isn't in favor of that? As Greg...

Drawing the Line with the Right

We're headed into an election that will feature the clearest ideological divide since Goldwater-Johnson. Romney and Gingrich and Santorum paint America on the brink of ruin -- about to "descend" into becoming an "entitlement society, not an opportunity society," a...

Labor's Fight Is OUR Fight

Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The story of organized labor has been a story of working people banding together to confront concentrated wealth and power. Unions...

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