Cutting Tax Break For Wealthy Would Fund Long-Term Jobless Benefits
Limiting one tax break for the rich would more than pay for extending unemployment benefits for 1.3 million long-term jobless Americans.
NBC News Glorifies Walmart's Alice Walton
This weekend, NBC News offered viewers a heartwarming portrait of Alice Walton and the Crystal Bridges art museum she opened two years ago in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Robert Reich: GOP Loses If U.S. Goes Over Fiscal Cliff
“Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer and Robert Reich, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, discuss the latest fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington. Robert Reich believes Democrats have the power in the budget battle,
Romney Tax Plan Would Choke Off Charitable Giving
On the eve of last week's presidential debate, Republican Mitt Romney floated a trial balloon to deflect public attention from his detail-free tax plan certain to give a massive windfall for the wealthy, burden middle class taxpayers and balloon
Ryan On Romney's Tax Plan: 'It Would Take Me Too Long' To Explain
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Sunday insisted that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney had provided specifics for his tax plan, but refused to say which deductions would need to be eliminated or provide any math to prove that the scheme
Romney Claims His Tax Plan Won't Lower Taxes On The Rich
Another Sunday, and another week goes by where Mitt Romney is still refusing to give any details about his tax plan and which loopholes he'd supposedly close so the rich don't end up getting another tax break. As Think Progress noted a earlier this week, even the host on Fox was getting fed up with the Romney campaign failing to give specifics and as they wrote in their post about his proposals:
"Courageous" Romney And Ryan Chicken Out On Tax Breaks
Introducing his new running mate on Saturday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney boasted, "We offer solutions that are bold, specific, and achievable." Number Two dutifully followed Number One, as Paul Ryan then promised voters, "We
The Romney Uncertainty Principle
That Mitt Romney will say anything to become President of the United States — no matter how blatantly false or comically contradictory — is sadly taken as a given in Election 2012. But while his pathetic pandering and transparent
Fox News, GOP Pretend Ryan Plan Doesn’t Add Trillions To The Debt
The new House Republican budget unveiled by Congressman Paul Ryan last week does many things. Ryan’s so-called “Path to Prosperity” would deliver yet another massive tax cut windfall for the wealthy and pay for it by gutting the social
Bill Moyers And Bruce Bartlett On Where The Right Went Wrong
Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Bill Moyers talks with conservative economist Bruce Bartlett, who wrote "the bible" for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House,
