Before we can return to the Failure of Conservative Economics, we must address a current issue on today’s Neo-Conservative agenda…the Paul Ryan Republican Budget for 2013. We need to examine the premises here and debunk the stuff that is simply wrong. Paul Ryan announced the Republican Budget on March 12, 2013 and it fell with [...]
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Time Out –A Look at the Republican Non-budget
March 12th, 2013 · Comments Off · ALEC, Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, Health Care, Politics, Populism, Social Security, taxes, The Budget
Tags: Corporatism·Economics·Health Care·national debt·Neoconservative·Politics·Republican Budget·Right Wing Propaganda·Ryan Budget·Social Security·taxes
Moving to the Left
November 15th, 2012 · 1 Comment · jobs, Politics, Populism, taxes
If you are a Populist, you should not think that the elections on November 6, 2012 solved anything. We elected a President and Senators and House members. But they were not all Populists. Until we elect officials who are dedicated to the will and the common good of the People, much remains to be done. [...]
Tags: jobs·taxes·the 2014 elections·voter supression·Wall Street
Romney, Taxes, Deficits and Disaster
October 18th, 2012 · Comments Off · Politics, Populism, Romney, taxes, The Budget
Mitt Romney wants to be President. In order to become President, he must persuade the American people that he has a better plan for America to grow its economy. The focal point of that plan has become a promise to create jobs. His plan to create jobs…disappointinly…turns out to be lower tax rates for millionaires [...]
Tags: national debt·Neo-Fascism·Romney·taxes
Tax the Rich and Save the Country
June 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
It is time that we stopped thinking about fairness, goodness, and justice. Fairness went out the window with Reagan. There never was enough goodness to go around. And justice…well, we’ve got five Right Wing Corporate Lawyers serving on the Supreme Court. How do you like your justice now? So let’s stop worrying about whether our [...]
Tags: eliminate tax breaks for the rich.·Republicans tax policy·tax the rich·taxes
Let’s Talk About the National Budget.
May 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, energy, jobs, Politics, taxes, Wall Street, wars and militarism
Phony baloney. Just like Walker in Wisconsin, the talk about “austerity” is a bunch of rich white men talking bull shit about what needs to be done. We don’t need austerity. Not the kind the Republicans are talking about. We need prosperity. You see, the problem with the United States right now is that we [...]
Tags: austerity federal budget·budget cuts·Medicare·raising taxes on the rich·Social Security·tax cuts·taxes
Truth and Consequences
May 18th, 2011 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Health Care, jobs, Politics, taxes
From time to time we may begin to drop in a little digest of Right Wing lies and other assorted items you may be able to use to set the record straight. Why Are Some Companies and States Getting Waivers from the Health Care Reform Bill? Mona Charen, a Right Wing writer for the Right [...]
18 Needy Families
December 16th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes
Tags: Neoconservative tax policy·Republican poitical obstruction.·tax cuts for the rich·tax policy·taxes·The Super-Rich
Why Tax Cuts for the Rich? Because They Think They Can.
December 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Politics, taxes
If you think that we need a reduction in taxes from the Bush-Cheney 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, you need to get the facts. You are being sold a bill of goods, a scam, a lie about taxes so that a few rich men who will benefit greatly want you to think that you will [...]
Tags: government deficits·national debt·Neoncon obstruction·Social Security·tax cuts·tax legislation·taxes
Republicans Plan Tax Cuts for Billionaires.
November 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · Media, Politics
Rule number one—always remember that the current Republican Party is out to get you unless you are a multi-millionaire and a donor to the Republican Party. Republicans at the top are all millionaires, like Dick Cheney who left government only for a few years to clean up as President of Halliburton by using his Defense [...]
Tags: corporate tax cuts·national debt·tax cuts for the rich·taxes
Politics: Save Yourself First – Part II
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Economics, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes
They will always try to get you with words and slogans. Words and slogans are fun but they aren’t facts. The rich are funding much of the media and a whole host of hidden propaganda machines. And they are creating buzz words to influence your thinking. Two of the key words to watch out for [...]
Tags: austerity·budget deficits·cutting Medicare·cutting social services·Neoconservative politics·Social Security·taxes
Politics: Winning in Class Warfare — Part I
September 15th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Culture, Human Rights, jobs, Media, Politics, Populism, taxes, Wall Street
In the early evening of a summer night in New York City, or Dallas or Los Angeles, or Miami, there is a slow, quiet movement of long, dark-windowed vehicles. They move quietly to centers of activity where bright lights outline the architecture and gowned women and men in expensive suits emerge, smiling and laughing. The [...]
Tags: austerity·billiionaires·Class warfare·Medicare·Neoconservatism·obstructionism·Social Security·tax breaks for the wealthy·taxes·the rich
The Case for Raising Taxes
September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Capitalism, Politics, taxes, Wall Street
For so many years we have been told that tax cuts stimulate the economy that most of us cannot accept the fact that raising taxes will not be counterproductive to expanding the economy. But that is exactly the case. Taxes may influence behavior. If you tax cigarettes or gasoline very heavily, some reduction in consumption [...]
No Cuts to Social Security
August 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Politics, Populism, taxes
Since 1980, the Republican Party has been made up of Conservatives and since Bush the First’s term made up of Neoconservatives. In the early 1980s they received a gigantic tax cut, reckless and foolish in the extreme…from a top rate of 74% down to a top rate of 28%. That set off a huge conspiracy [...]
Tags: Bush tax cuts·cutting Social Security·marginal tax rates·Neoconservative spending·Social Security·taxes
Jon Kyl and the Paris Hilton Retirement Plan
July 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Corporations and Industry, Economics, Politics, Populism, taxes
Here’s how you prepare for retirement. You figure out a way to be born into a very wealth family. Your daddy dies and you get his fortune. The Republicans, Neocon Republicans all, in the Senate and the House are hard at work on Paris Hilton’s retirement plan. If daddy should die this year, then all [...]
Tags: inheritance tax·inheritance taxes·Lincoln-Kyl Inheritance legislation·Neocon obstruction to unemployment benefits·taxes
State of the Nation — June 2010
June 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Capitalism, Corporations and Industry, Economics, energy, jobs, Lobbying, Media, Politics, taxes
Where are we? We’ve got a bunch of tea party nuts…let’s be frank…running around saying that the country is becoming a fascist sate and another segment of the same nuts or even those same nuts themselves contradicting what they just said by saying we’re becoming Communist or Socialist. It’s difficult even to explain, let alone [...]
Tags: Corporatism·jobs·Liberal and progressive legislation·Lobbying·Neoconservative obstruction·Republican lies·Senate Republican obstruction·taxes·unions