Robert Kuttner

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

Obama wanted to be the president who would change the tone in Washington, meaning a more collaborative relationship with the Republicans. That was not to be. The Republicans would not allow it.

Robert Reich

Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage'

Newt Gingrich has done it again. With his new tax plan he has raised the bar from irresponsibility to recklessness.

Peter Morgan

Freelance macroeconomist

Money always does something. It is always being used to enable the functions an economy needs. By taxing the rich, all that is achieved is a transfer of wealth from the private sector to the public sector.

Dean Baker

Co-director, CEPR; author, 'The End of Loser Liberalism: Making Markets Progressive'

While whacking our parents and grandparents with a big cut in Social Security benefits apparently draws bipartisan support, the supercommittee will not even score a plan to tax Wall Street financial speculation.

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Writer; host, 'The Breakdown'; Senior Fellow, Campaign for America's Future

Thanks to a hit piece by one of those Beltway pseudo-"bipartisans" we can now state conclusively what many of us have long suspected: Occupy Wall Street speaks for the American majority. We've got the polling numbers to prove it. We now know where the real center lies.

Joan E. Dowlin

Musician

"We are the ones we have been waiting for."- thus said candidate Barack Obama who used it for a Presidential campaign speech in February 2008. Althou...

Chuck Collins

Senior scholar, Institute for Policy Studies and author of '99 to 1'

Obama has put forward a revenue proposal worthy of support and organizing. Progressives need to engage the media and our neighbors -- and dramatize the reality that a majority support increasing taxes on millionaires and corporate tax dodgers.

Chuck Collins

Senior scholar, Institute for Policy Studies and author of '99 to 1'

We now need ten thousand more like Warren Buffett to speak up, people with incomes over $250,000 that know in their hearts that they should pay more.

Sam Pizzigati

Editor, Too Much, and author, The Rich Don't Always Win

The oh-so-loaded residents at New York's poshest addresses pay less of their income in federal taxes, a new analysis reveals, than the staff who clean...

Art Levine

Contributing Editor, The Washington Monthly

The centrist lobbying powerhouse for the elderly, the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP), is scheduled to endorse the House health care bill despite its possibly flawed public option.