"Words that make actions speak louder."
The New York Times notes that in the last four years, the IRS budget “has been cut by 17 percent after taking inflation into account.” The passive “has been cut” language begs the question: Who cut the IRS budget?
House Republicans start the new Congress by declaring that tax cuts defy gravity and that future disability payments should be held hostage to set the stage for Social Security cuts.
With all of the bad stuff that is in the 2015 budget that the House struggled to pass late Thursday, there is also a major story to be told about what’s not in the bill. In an ideal world, it would have been voted down.
Voters are rendering a harsh judgement against seven Republican governors running for re-election because the economic prosperity that was supposed to follow their trickle-down economic policies is only a trickle.
Conclusions by the New York Times’ Neil Irwin about the reasons the economy “keeps underperforming” tie directly to what we’ve been saying about conservatives sabotaging the economy.
The aims of Rep. Paul Ryan’s latest antipoverty vision sound noble. But the core of his proposal has a fundamental flaw: Block grants to states have proven ill-suited to the task of reducing poverty.
The economic actions and trends that have hollowed out the middle class and led to massive wealth concentration at the top 1 percent are not even mentioned in Ryan’s “War on Poverty” report.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, before his attention-getting stunt outside the White House this week, offered up a 10-point agenda to “jump-start growth” that withers under the harsh light of reality.
A show about rough Washington politics gets rough in real life, demanding that Maryland taxpayers fork over more subsidies or else it will move its filming operation to the state that will allow the biggest tax ripoff.
Terry McAuliffe’s win in Virginia, even though it was a decisive defeat of a tea party hero, doesn’t offer a template for rebuilding the electoral framework for progressive reform. That’s the real challenge of 2014 and beyond.