In a political system like ours dominated by big money and the lobbyists that money hires, democracy requires eternal vigilance, even in years when Democrats control of Congress and the White House.
Democrats managed to pass and then expand under Bush a commonsense progressive tax measure, and here we are watching Democrats aiming to weaken that tax measure.
We cannot give away tax dollars for tax credits for large corporations without proof that they work.
The Obama Administration is planning to start cutting the deficit soon. Even merely to discuss tax raises, expenditure cuts, and the increases in interest rates that are entailed will slow the recovery.
Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else.
A series of investigations could spell the beginning of the end for the billion dollar, taxpayer funded troubled teen industry.
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
If we're ever going to develop real financial stability, perhaps its time to consider eliminating the pesky middle man.
How does our state rebuild when a quarter or a third of our citizens don't receive the help they need from the state so they can get a job, see a doctor, stay in school, keep their homes or eat dinner tonight?
Old technologies may be no better than new ones, but it's worth taking a moment every now and then to make sure we still know how to sit still and take in the life going on around us...
Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. is just the latest in a string of firms lured across the Hudson by state incentives. Since the '80s, major New York employers have moved tens of thousands of jobs.
There's a big scary new study out today from the health insurance lobby purporting to show that the Senate Finance Committee's reform bill would cause future health insurance premiums to spiral out of control.
The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.
44,000 deaths is the equivalent of 14.6 of Al Qaeda's 9/11s per year. It's 24 Katrina-scale disasters per year. It is a pandemic of omission and exclusion.
Have you seen the pictures of the latest fires out in California? Check em out here and here. Firefighters taking the hills, copters and planes droppi...
The news that Rio has been chosen to host the 2016 Olympics, while disappointing for American patriots, could hardly be considered unexpected. No Sout...
The soda tax is being tried out as a potential wedge issue, a populist theme. Super groovy cool self-satisfied yuppie people don't drink soda. But gross fat compulsive lacking-all-self-control normal Americans do.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture as part of the Making It In America project. I am a ...
If we truly want to address the issue of high health care costs and lack of access, we must address the impact that illegal immigration has on the system.
Sometimes you can't declare victory until the other side concedes defeat. That's what happened Monday in the decade-long struggle over the future of the estate tax, our nation's only levy on inherited wealth.
We've come a long way from Tocqueville's engaged America. I am happy to report, however, that thoughtful, respectful and civil discourse still thrives in the great state of Colorado.
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