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Entries by Andrew Fieldhouse from 12/2011

Paying for a Jobs Bill by Cutting Federal Jobs?

| Posted 12.04.2011 | Politics
Read More: Congressional Budget Office, Congress Taxes, Job Creation Congress, Republicans Payroll Tax, Congress Super Committee, Payroll Tax Offsets, Payroll Tax Congress, Congress Taxes Deficit, Politics News

Earlier this week, Senate Republicans rolled out their proposal for financing an extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut scheduled to expire at the end of December: cutting federal employees' jobs and wages.

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Supply-side's Abject Failure

| Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: Progressive Taxation, Inequality, Taxation, Supply-Side Economics, Trickle Down Economics, Republicans Economy, Osawatomie Speech, Supply Side, Obama, Obama Taxes, Politics News

I applaud the president for making the case against regressive tax cuts as the lodestar of economic policy. We cannot afford to double down on the failed, plutocratic pipe dream that is trickle down economics.

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