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• Does Size Really Matter?

  
  THE SAME ROWDY CROWD — Authority: 127
  Danielle Steele’s novels are automatically superior to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, right? That’s must be the conclusion if you adopt the logic of a common contemporary Republican talking point: Big documents are automatically inferior to short documents. Increasingly, it seems Republican pols and pundits love to ...
  23 hours ago

• The Jobless Jobs Bill?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 140
  It isn’t surprising that the DFL is intent on putting together a gigantic bonding bill which they’ll tout as their jobs bill. While it’s true that the bonding bill will include important infrastructure maintenance projects, it’s statistically provable that there are thousands fewer construction jobs ...
  1 day ago

• Larson: In Defense of That War Surtax

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Republicans are fuming at the thought, and some Democrats say it can’t pass in this stormy economic climate, but Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) today told CNN that a proposed war surtax is simply the fiscally responsible way to share the sacrifice of the country’s ongoing wars. The only people we’re asking to ...
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• Still No Appetite to Share the Burdens of War

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Tax cuts in the middle of two wars are OK , but tax hikes to pay the freight of those wars would be irresponsible. That’s the message coming from Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), head of the Republican Study Committee, who told CNN this morning that a war surtax being proposed by Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) is “as cynical ...
  2 days ago

• Time to Pass The Buck and Start Pointing Fingers: Obama Living Up to His Absentee Legislator Past

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  During the Presidential “Media Fest” Campaign of 2007/08, many tried to impress upon the American people that Obama was an empty suit.  Quite simply, he had no significant legislative achievement to call his own.  Heck, as an Illinois State Senator, Obama voted “present” nearly 130 times, according to the ...
  3 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 days ago

• Yeah, another reason to raise taxes on the rich

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 682
  Via Meteor Blades at Daily Kos is Sam Pizzigati explaining that the top 1 percent of income earners have a ridiculously low state and local tax burden relative to their low and middle-income fellow citizens: America’s most affluent 1 percent now pay, on average, just 6.4 percent of their incomes in state and ...
  6 days ago

• Obama and the Democrats Push Tax Increases

  
  Political Pistachio — Authority: 581
  By Douglas V. Gibbs Remember Obamas campaign promise of cutting taxes for 95% of the people? If you dont have health insurance, should their proposal pass, you will be fined (and possibly jailed). That fine, by the way, is technically a tax. As for the Afghanistan war troop level increase? Well, if we send more ...
  1 week ago

• Tarryl And Job Growth: They Just Don’t Fit Together

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 140
  There’s a quote in this Times article that underscores Tarryl Clark’s ineptitude on prosperity-related topics. Here’s the quote: “Clearly, as a state, it is always difficult for us to figure out how we can grow and sustain jobs,” Clark said. “It is always interesting to see and ask questions. Are ...
  1 week ago

• Eight Years Later, Still No Appetite to Share the Burden of War Funding

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 740
  Here’s an interesting response from Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Finance Committee, when asked by a reporter this morning whether Congress intends to pay for the wars its launched, or continue to borrow the money and pile onto federal deficits. Defending America is a number one ...
  1 week ago

• Iggy vs, Iggy

  
  ChuckerCanuck 2.0 — Authority: 427
  Paul Wells has posted an email from the OLO in which quotes proving up Michael Ignatieffs history of condemning torture. Now, I think we can all agree that what Iggy thinks of the issue is, while amusing, rather academic. However, the attempt is so stinky, that I thought Id go to another source to see where Iggy ...
  1 week ago

• America’s Right Wing: Fear Leads to Hate, and Hate Leads to Suffering

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the ...
  1 week ago

• Conason Reminds Scarborough That The Iraq War and Tax Cuts Ballooned the Deficit.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 136
  Joe Conason points out to Joe Scarborough that the Iraq war, coupled with tax cuts for the rich, did more than anything to balloon the US deficit. Scarborough wants to view such things as "the past" and thinks that "people who opposed everything George W Bush did" are bound to get it right once in a blue moon. This ...
  1 week ago

• What Ever Happened to the Good Times the Tax-Cutters Promised?

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Sam Pizzigati The Campaign for America’s Future You don’t have to dig particularly deep, in the United States today, to find some striking similarities between today’s virulently anti-Obama “Tea Party” crowd and the media darlings who birthed the “Tax Revolt” phenomenon back in the late 1970s. ...
  1 week ago

• The Cost Of Conservativism

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 477
  In recent discussions on Twitter with members of the teabagger movement ( you can check out my timeline @aironlater ) it has come to light that they are completely ignoring the spending of former president George W. Bush. While this shouldnt come as a suprise to anyone paying attention, not only are they ignoring ...
  1 week ago

• An RNC Purity Test?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates agree to at least seven of 10 issue promises in order to receive financial ...
  1 week ago

• House Prepares To Renew Expiring Tax Cuts For One Year

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 433
  After voting to extend the homebuyers credit just a few weeks ago, Congress is already making plans to extend $37 billion in tax cuts for individuals and businesses in 2010. Leaders of the House of Representatives have been working on legislation and assert that they plan to pass the legislation by the end of the ...
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• Could The Bush Tax Cuts Be Ended Early?

  
  InvestorCentric — Authority: 133
  Yes, the government can pass tax increases that are retroactive, as demonstrated by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, signed into law by Bill Clinton. David Galland from Casey Research thinks it could happen again as the democratic majority is in desperate need of raising revenue without expending ...
  1 week ago

• Visual Description for Economics Education

  
  Garnering Right Ideas — Authority: 132
  This should be required reading for every American, especially high school and college students. Our national debt: How much would 12 trillion eggs weigh? .
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