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Level Playing Field

Level the Playing Field in Trade Policy

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Imports, Free Trade, National Industrial Policy, Industrial Policy, Level Playing Field, Trade Policy, Wto, TRADE Act, Nafta, Business News
Stan Sorscher

All products sold in America should comply with the same basic standards, whether manufactured domestically or imported from abroad. That's one playing field (among many) that should be leveled.

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Supreme Court Backs Plutocracy, Targets Arizona Clean Elections Matching Funds

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Roberts Court, Goldwater Institute, U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff, Bush-Cheney 2000 Decision, 1998 Arizona Clean Elections Act, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Pay-to-Play, Matching Funds, Level Playing Field, Rehnquist Court, Corporate Court, U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Matching Funds, Publicly Funded Campaigns, Infringement of First Amendment, Colorado Clean Campaigns, Tikkun, Erosion of Democracy, Plutocracy, Todd Lang, Millionaires Amendment, Samuel Alito, Initiative 53, Federal Elections Now Act, Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Justice, Chilled Speech, Fair Elections Now Act, PAC Money, Attorney General Candidate Stan Garnett, Denver News
Michele Swenson

The Colorado Citizens (Publicly-Funded) Campaigns Initiative 53 is not modeled on Arizona and other states' public funding initiatives that use matching funds to level the election playing field.

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Three Reasons You May Be Uneasy With Health Reform

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Robust Public Option, Warren Zevon, Cadillac Tax, Public Option, Level Playing Field, House Committee on Health and Labor, Excise Tax, Health Reform, Baucus Tax, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

If the end product is an imperfect health care reform bill, one that takes too much from the middle class in order to help those even less fortunate, that won't be what some people wanted. But it will be be an improvement.

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