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National Journal Blames Baby Boomers For U.S. Decline -- What's Your Response?

Posted 10.07.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Entitlements, Video, Baby Boomers, Older Voters, The Debt, Reducing the Deficit, The Deficit, The National Journal, Jim Tankersley, Elections 2012, Tom Tankersley, Older Voters Influence, Fifty News

The National Journal has just published a provocative cover story by economics correspondent Jim Tankersley called "The Case Against Parasitic Baby Bo...

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Newt's Tax Plan, and Why His Polls Rise the More Outrageous He Becomes

Robert Reich | Posted 02.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Super Rich, Newt Gingrich 2012, Federal Budget Deficit, Taxing the Rich, Reducing the Deficit, Tax Policy Center, Deficit Reduction, Corporate Taxes, Newt Gingrich, Election 2012, GOP Candidates, Politics News
Robert Reich

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

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The Super Committee's Big Lie

Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 01.20.2012 | Politics
Read More: Taxes, Super Committee, Budget, Reducing the Deficit, Government Spending, Deficit Reduction, Deficit, Politics News
Jeffrey Sachs

As the Super Committee threatens this week to gut the government on the basis of a big lie, it's more important than ever that we fight back with systematic data. With truth on our side, the new progressive movement will prevail.

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