MORNING MESSAGE: The Upside of Taxes OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “Today’s new corporate-sponsored cost-cutting craze is merely the latest policy designed to enrich a powerful few at the expense of the many, and today’s anti-tax agenda is being used to make sure it succeeds. Taxes provide us with many important services, often far more cheaply and [...]
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President Obama’s budget proposal may have a lot of new concessions to Republicans, but on taxes, his flag is firmly planted where it has always been: Make the tax code more progressive. Already with ObamaCare and the fiscal cliff deal he has achieved the most progressive tax code since 1979, and this budget would make [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Progressive, Labor Leaders United Against Chained CPI OurFuture.org’s Richard Long: “The Congressional Progressive Caucus and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka pressed their opposition to President Obama’s proposed chained-CPI change to Social Security benefits at a Thursday afternoon news conference, denouncing it as a cut in benefits for those who need the social safety net [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: GOP’s “Shocking” Attack On Obama’s Chained CPI Cuts OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “That was fast. Yesterday we suggested that the chained-CPI cut in President Obama’s budget, which was presented as a gesture to Republicans, might instead be used to rebrand Democrats as ‘the anti-Social Security party.’ It took them fifteen minutes. A GOP official [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: The President’s Budget: A Misguided Mission Statement OurFuture.org’s Robert Borosage: “The president’s major purpose is not to address mass unemployment, not to build a new foundation for the economy, not to revive the middle class or redress Gilded Age inequality. The president’s overriding priority is to cut a deal – and a deal [...]
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Two-and-a-half months ago, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal addressed the Republican National Committee and said the following: “We must stop being the stupid party.” “We must stop insulting the intelligence of voters.” “It’s time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults.” Two weeks prior to those comments, Jindal proposed to “eliminate all personal income [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Sinking American Electorate – African Americans Still In Depression OurFuture.org’s Isaiah J. Poole: “When President Obama formally unveils his fiscal 2014 budget on Wednesday … there will not be an all-out effort to address the depression-level unemployment conditions among African Americans. In that is a convergence of misplaced economic priorities and foolhardy politics [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “No jobs. No growth. Falling income. Unaffordable colleges. A dying middle class. Young people without hope. The greatest economic inequality in modern history. And yet, in the midst of the Long Depression, we’re told that the President intends to cuts Social Security … [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: The Sinking American Electorate – Young And In Peril OurFuture.org’s Derek Pugh: “Millennials – the largest, best educated, and most diverse generation in our nation’s history – have one question for Democrats seeking election in 2014: Do your values really reflect ours? Democrats have reason to worry about what the answer would be [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: The Scarring Effect of Long-Term Unemployment OurFuture.org’s Bill Scher: “A new report from the National Employment Law Project, ‘Scarring Effects: Demographics of the Long-Term Unemployed and the Danger of Ignoring the Jobs Deficit,’ is a blaring siren to policymakers in Washington. While noting that nearly 5 million people have been out of work [...]
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