It’s tough to have fair laws:
‘It makes no sense and it has to change,’ Mr. Obama said in his State of the Union address. ‘Get rid of the loopholes. Level the playing field. And use the savings to lower the corporate tax rate for the first time in 25 years — without adding to our [...]
Category Archives: U.S. Politics
When big businesses run the government
January 27, 2011 – 11:14 am
Chairman Joe and the threat of censorship
December 3, 2010 – 11:15 am
Joe Lieberman is abusing his post as Senate committee leader on Homeland Security by demanding the censorship of materials posted by Wikileaks.
Wikileaks, as of this time, has not been charged with nor convicted of any crime. In fact, our country has long had laws that protect the publication of leaked documents like the Pentagon Papers. It can [...]
Atta girl!
December 3, 2010 – 10:38 am
Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi managed to pass the Bush tax cuts for all Americans, with one modification: No bonus tax cuts for people who make in excess of $250,000.
Pelosi and the House Democrats made the right move. Not raising taxes on middle class Americans during a deep recession makes sense. Americans need the extra [...]
Washington Post FAIL (update)
December 2, 2010 – 4:10 pm
Just a few minutes ago, the House of Representatives voted to preserve the Bush Tax Cuts for people who make less than $250,000 a year. Rich folks would see a modest tax increase that will help shore up the deficit.
As a result this is the headline the Washington Post runs:
More proof that the media is [...]
Counterproductive
November 29, 2010 – 10:58 am
Obama will freeze federal worker pay for two years as a “a symbolic gesture toward public anger over unemployment, the anemic economic recovery and rising national debt.” Too bad taking more money out of the economy will hurt the recovery, depress the job market and stunt the kind of growth that would solve our debt [...]
You must sacrifice for your betters
November 15, 2010 – 10:12 am
Last week the war to cripple Social Security began in earnest. The initial attacks are working in concert. First up, billionaire Wall Street banker and Nixon appointee Pete Peterson riles up fear over government debt with a gigantic new ad campaign:
Then, miraculously, the White House has a solution for your fears! Behold the recommendations of Obama’s [...]
Plutocracy has replaced democracy
November 8, 2010 – 11:06 am
Stop what you’re doing and read this entire speech by Bill Moyers. Moyers describes how government has been subverted to a single cause: Making the rich richer.
Some excerpts:
from 1950 through 1980, the share of all income in America going to everyone but the rich increased from 64 percent to 65 percent. Because the nation’s economy [...]
Problem solved
November 3, 2010 – 8:19 am
The problem with America is that rich people pay too much in taxes. Finally, we’ve elected representatives to solve that problem.
Vote Tuesday
November 1, 2010 – 9:18 am
Being lazy has consequences. Don’t let it f*ck up the future.
The masochists are the real problem
October 19, 2010 – 10:45 am
(Updated Below)
The folks at Balloon-Juice are ripping Andrew Sullivan a new one over a recent comment he made about liberals and taxes on the rich:
Why are so many on the left incapable of acknowledging that many people who are rich – but, of course by no means all of them – earned it the hard [...]