Republican Pettiness and Democratic Enabling Lead to Budget that Hurts New Jerseyans
The political leadership in the Garden State preaches austerirty and passes the burden of the economic crisis to those in the most dire need.
How the Government Can Save $2 Trillion
A serious debate about the federal government’s role is long overdue.
The End of the Sacred Cow
Over the last decade, military spending has nearly doubled. We have a bold vision about ending waste in the vast military budget, and providing a road map on how to shift security resources more effectively.
Report of the Task Force on a Unified Security Budget for the United States
With military cuts now on the negotiating table, here’s a set of expert recommendations on what to cut and yet keep us safe and secure.
Tell the People about the People’s Budget
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard about the People’s Budget, though there’s been a mountain of media coverage of the budget mess.
Paving the Road to a Hungrier, Unhealthier, and Less-Educated Nation
Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
Enough Budget Slashing, Let’s Flip
A powerful solution to state deficits is to invert each state’s tax structure.
Deconstructing a Paul Ryan Sound Bite
Ryan’s budget cuts spending that helps average Americans to fund tax cuts for rich Americans.
Squandering Our Tax Dollars and Ocean Resources
Factory farms for fish are a growing problem that don’t deserve Washington’s support.
Why are we the Tea Party’s Hostages?
Our deficit is manageable if we’re smart about it.
What Would Jesus Tax?
The prophetic Jesus would turn our head in different direction from the place where current budget and taxation decisions are focused.
We Don’t Need to Shut Down the Government: Tax the Wealthy and Deadbeat Corporations to Close Budget Gaps
If corporations and households with $1 million income paid at the same levels they did in 1961, the Treasury would collect an additional $716 billion a year.
Unnecessary Austerity, Unnecessary Shutdown
Reversing tax giveaways to the super-rich and the nation’s largest corporations could raise $4 trillion within a decade and avert possible government closures.
GOP Unveils Radical New Budget Gutting Medicare, Medicaid — Taking from the Poor, Giving to the Rich
From start to finish, this budget is a smoke screen obscuring a dangerous far-right agenda.
85 Percent? How Do You Figure, Mr. Ryan?
After promising his budget proposal would stick closely to the bipartisan deficit reduction commission’s recommendations, his actual blueprint looks like a work of ideological posture of his own creation.