It's a pretty bad day to be Romney's Tax Plan. First, Bill Clinton unloaded harsh criticism calling it an "illusion." Then, Bruce Bartlett, a form...
But how can drastic action be necessary when the Social Security trust fund reportedly has over $2.4 trillion in it at present? This is a misleading sleight-of-hand. Here is how.
The state shutdown in Minnesota brought upon by the lack of a budget agreement between Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislators only...
What's happening in Wisconsin isn't about budget deficits or government spending or even public employee benefits. It's class war, wherein the big business, conservative Right tries to pit working class Americans against one another.
America's problem is that it doesn't want to pay for what it wants. We pay big bucks for the stuff that makes us happy. We pay only pennies publicly for common goods, and then whine about how many pennies it's costing.
It should be intuitively obvious that a capitalist economy cannot thrive with high taxes and an unstable money.
McCain/Palin work their way around the country, turning embattled red states into so many wounded soldiers to be sorted out for treatment based on medical necessity.
