The Awkward Truth: America’s Tax System Isn’t Rigged in Favor of the Rich

Rob Port SayAnythingBlog 1/6/2012

The Occupy Wall Street movement and its apologists like to credit the protests with “raising awareness” about income inequality in America, which in turn is used as an argument for raising taxes on the rich. If that’s true (and I’m not sure OWS has done anything more than commit a lot […]

Rep. Ribble: Endlessly growing deficits won’t ‘win the future’

House Budget Committee YouTube 2/15/2011

Rep. Reid Ribble of Wisconsin holds White House budget director Jack Lew accountable for his own words:

RIBBLE: So we cannot win the future if we’re saddled with increasingly growing deficits, that’s a statement that you would agree with, correct?

LEW: I would definitely agree with that. I wrote it, […]

Social Security will begin running a permanent deficit this year

John Verum Serum 1/26/2011

Previously the CBO said we had until 2016, now they’ve revised that estimate:

The Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday that Social Security will pay out $45 billion more in benefits this year than it will collect in payroll taxes, further straining the nation’s finances. The deficits will continue until the Social […]

California Suggests Suicide; Texas Asks: Can I Lend You a Knife?

Joel Kotkin Forbes.com 11/15/2010

In the future, historians may likely mark the 2010 midterm elections as the end of the California era and the beginning of the Texas one. In one stunning stroke, amid a national conservative tide, California voters essentially ratified a political and regulatory regime that has left much of the state unemployed […]

No More Fi$ting Tips For Your Child?… Debt Commission Wants to Eliminate Safe Schools Czar

Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 11/11/2010

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In March 2000 the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) organization of Massachusetts held its 10 Year Anniversary GLSEN/Boston conference at Tufts University. This conference was fully supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Safe Schools Program, the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, and […]

State Republicans, Facing Deficits, Promise Big Cuts

Now in Power, G.O.P. Vows Cuts in State Budgets

Monica Davey and Michael Luo The New York Times 11/7/2010

Republicans who have taken over state capitols across the country are promising to respond to crippling budget deficits with an array of cuts, among them proposals to reduce public workers’ benefits in Wisconsin, scale back social […]

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