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.
The political leadership in the Garden State preaches austerirty and passes the burden of the economic crisis to those in the most dire need.
A serious debate about the federal government’s role is long overdue.
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.
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.
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.
Massive spending cuts will make the future bleaker for millions of Americans.
A powerful solution to state deficits is to invert each state’s tax structure.
Ryan’s budget cuts spending that helps average Americans to fund tax cuts for rich Americans.
Factory farms for fish are a growing problem that don’t deserve Washington’s support.
Our deficit is manageable if we’re smart about it.
The prophetic Jesus would turn our head in different direction from the place where current budget and taxation decisions are focused.
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.
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.
From start to finish, this budget is a smoke screen obscuring a dangerous far-right agenda.
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.