Extending Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest While Repealing Healthcare Law: A...
Originally Posted Nov. 16, 2010 Modified and Reposted June 25, 2012 prior to SCOTUS Ruling Are we really willing, as a country, to assign a higher value to tax cuts for the wealthiest during...
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An Open Letter to Representative Boehner and Senator McConnell
Dear Sirs: During my life I have lived in poverty, been part of the middle class, and amongst the top 0.3% of income earners in this country. I worked through poverty in my 20′s, having a child born...
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Supply-Side Failure from Theory, to Outcomes, to Danger of Citizens United...
Summary: Republican tax cut/deregulation (supply-side) policy assumes the United States to be a closed economic system where the benefit remains in America when in fact we invest in a global economy....
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Raising the Debt Ceiling: When Ideology Meets Reality
With dialog on Capital Hill being next to impossible, Senate Minority Leader McConnell has put forth a plan to allow the president to raise the debt ceiling to prevent the United States from defaulting...
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Job Creation and Our Diminished Economic Engine: The Middle Class
Over the past 30 years the vast majority of income gains have gone to the wealthiest in our country. In an economy that is 70% personal consumption, we will continue to experience slow recovery and...
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Wealth and Income Inequality: America’s Moral Crisis
Less than one tenth of one percent of our population is holding a sum of wealth approaching three times the size of the US economy that is anticipated to more than double within the next decade, the...
View ArticleA Request for NC Senator Hagan to Address Moral Issue of Wealth/Income...
I voted for NC Senator Kay Hagan. I consider her a thoughtful individual who has positively acted to support many progressive policies (ref). This past week I issued correspondence to her office...
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Romney: Raising Taxes on Small Business Owners Will Cost Jobs. “Poppycock”!
Mr. Romney’s claim during the first presidential debate that increasing the income tax rate for highly successful small business owners would result in job losses is nothing less than a scare tactic...
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Republican Economic Policy: When Facts No Longer Matter
“…there’s remarkable consensus among mainstream economists, including those from the left and right, on most major macroeconomic issues. The debate in Washington about economic policy is phony....
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The Year the GOPs Con Game was Exposed
The GOP’s decision to reinstate tax cut policy in 2001 exposed their hand. It was not about deficit reduction, growing the economy, or job creation. It was about ideology and, no doubt, special...
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