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What does extreme inequality sound like
This is a clever concept by the Working Group on Extreme Inequality. Read more
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One Graph Says it All
I don’t understand why all Democrats aren’t running around with this chart on a T-shirt Probably among the most boring issues on Earth is tax policy. Yet it is also an issue mostly hotly contested especially in America. So that might explain why so many people (myself included) will rely on others to explain tax… Read more
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Because Moderates Dont Make History! Thats Why!
If President Obama wants to squander his presidency he should listen to folks like David Brooks and Evan Bayh The punditocracy has been quickly at work presenting the diagnosis and cure for the current Democratic (or should I say democratic) malaise. They are almost exclusively of one voice. Overwhelmingly, they claim that Democrats over-reached… Read more
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Republicans Caught Lying um again
Really. How much longer do we have to keep going over this stuff? So here’s the meme. Every time a Republican goes on the campaign stump they must use some version of the “Tax and Spend Liberal” staple of conservative politics. Democrats are all tax and spend liberals. They are going to take your… Read more
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A Comprehensive National Jobs Program
Until Americans are back to work there is no honor to restore. If corporations won’t do it, then the government should. That’s right, I said it. The government should get into the business of hiring. For generations, we’ve been socialized to believe that it is the economic sector, dominated by corporations that provide the… Read more
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