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Budget-Federal, Taxes October 18, 2012

The Argument for Extending Middle-Class Tax Cuts

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Elections, GOP, Mitt Romney, Taxes October 18, 2012

Romney’s Duplicity

The saddest part about our election process is that people apply a label to themselves based on whatever reason and then fail to pay attention or do any mental processing relative to that label’s candidates….

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Budget-Federal, Contractors, Defense April 20, 2012

Truthout 3-Part Series: Self-Dealing & the War Service Industry

Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part I Charles M Smith and Dina Rasor, Truthout: On April 19, 2007, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the Army’s management of KBR’s contract, called…

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Debt Ceiling, Taxes August 10, 2011

The Misnomer of the Tea Party

As one gets older, memories merge and memories blur and sometimes, what you remember as fact, turns out to be a fiction and not a fact at all.  Take the Boston Tea Party as an…

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Debt Ceiling August 1, 2011

Strike One!

As of this evening, the debt ceiling compromise bill has been pass by the House and is awaiting a vote in the Senate.  If Congress manages to pass the ‘compromise’ debt-ceiling bill, the Teapublicans will…

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Budget-Federal, GOP April 24, 2011

Rep. Ryan’s Budget and its Path to Poverty

Rep. Paul Ryan’s Budget (HConRes34) was passed by the House [Yea: 235 Republicans / Nay: 189 Democrats + 4 Republicans (Jones/McKinley/Paul/Rehberg)] on 4/15/2011 at 2:35 PM EDT. Rep. Ryan may claims he is going to…

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Deficit, Politics, Unemployment July 23, 2010

Unemployment Benefits v. Tax Cuts for the Uber-Rich

Over the past few weeks, we saw the GOP filibuster the extension of unemployment benefits in one vote after another. Senator Ensign claims that he’s all for extending unemployment benefits, if that is, they’re paid…

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Taxes March 29, 2010

Taxing Miles Driven?

President Obama, according to press secretary Gibbs will not seek to adopt a tax policy where motorists are taxed based on how many miles they drive, saying, “It is not and will not be the…

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Deficit, National Debt December 28, 2009

Senate Raises Debt Ceiling Yet Again

The Senate voted Thursday, December 24, 2009, to raise, once again, the ceiling on allowable government debt by another $290 Billion, raising the ceiling to $12,394,000,000 Trillion (H.R. 4314). The vote to raise the limit…

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Deficit, National Debt October 1, 2009

HR 2918 Passed, Increases Funding for Congress

I am rapidly losing faith in our elected officials! What is wrong with them? In the same week, they vote down a public option for health care reform and they pass a bill that would…