by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Institute for America's Future co-director Robert Borosage appeared on the Tavis Smiley Show on October 31 to discuss the tax and economic policies advanced by Republican presidential candidates and their impact on middle- and low-income people. He calls the flat-tax...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog, Making it in America
After a decade of Republican policies that dearly cost the country's manufacturing sector, Republican Presidential candidates today offered ideas for reviving our country's jobs engine. Unfortunately those ideas are the same ideas that got us into this mess in the...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Rick Perry’s Plan for the 1% Today, Rick Perry released his “Cut, Balance and Grow” economic plan. From his initial press release, this is clearly a plan designed for the wealthiest Americans. Perry would eliminate the estate tax that applies only to the wealthiest...
by Dave Johnson | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Conservatives are always pushing for a "flat tax." It sounds so simple: One easy rate, so we all pay the same, easy to calculate... Get rid of deductions and lower the tax rates. So simple, but it turns out it is a simple trick, a scam to enrich the 1%, like so much...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
Back when they were teaching gun safety to my generation, there was a term for people who ran or jogged while carrying a loaded weapon. The term was "idiot." And back when we were learning basic geometry they had a book called Flatland that told a story set in a...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 1, 2011 | Blog
On Wednesday, Robert Borosage joined the Thom Hartmann Show to discuss Rick Perry's new tax plan. Watch it below.
