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

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• 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 ...
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• Yeah, another reason to raise taxes on the rich

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 679
  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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 743
  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 ...
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• 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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  6 days 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. ...
  6 days ago

• The Cost Of Conservativism

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 431
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• An RNC Purity Test?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• House Prepares To Renew Expiring Tax Cuts For One Year

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 434
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Could The Bush Tax Cuts Be Ended Early?

  
  InvestorCentric — Authority: 132
  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: 131
  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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• The Economist Magazine on Why We Have to Be Biased Toward Tax Increases in the Short Term

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 511
  The cover story in this week’s Economist magazine discusses “dealing with America’s fiscal hole.” The “hole” is described not as something we’ll have to dig ourselves out of in the far-off future , but something we’re already too far in now .  (The story quotes Bill Gale and Alan ...
  1 week ago

• In Stimulus Piece, New York Times Chooses Bipartisan Balance Over The Truth

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 435
  The New York Times’ Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper had a pretty informative piece about the stimulus yesterday with the useful takeaway that the package is, more or less, working. It’s been one of the most popular articles on the Times Web site this weekend and could turn into a piece that journalists and ...
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• Palin Comparison: How Neo-Cons Misrepresent Representative Government

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths ...
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• Palintology: How Neo-Cons Misrepresent Representative Government

  
  Sex at Dawn — Authority: 100
  "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths ...
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• ODT on Key and Tax

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 616
  The ODT reports : Personal tax cuts are back on the agenda of Prime Minister John Key and his enthusiasm for the cuts appear to indicate they could be part of National’s 2011 election manifesto. Speaking to the Otago Daily Times yesterday, Mr Key talked about how a reformed tax system – rewarding people ...
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• Think Again: “History” Isn’t a Dirty Word

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 424
  By Eric Alterman Last week, Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico reported that the White House planned on making deficit reduction a centerpiece of the next State of the Union address. Allen and Vandehei called the decision “practical” saying that “Obama has spent more money on new programs in nine ...
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• To Create Jobs, Voters Say Cut Taxes and Stop Spending

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  [V]oters have consistently believed that tax cuts would do more than increased government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Now that the nation’s unemployment rate has reached 10.2%, voters continue to hold that view. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax ...
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