Occupy the Budget
How to pay for the crisis while making our nation more equitable, green, and secure.
Nuclear Turkeys
The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union.
Equal Taxation for Wealth and Work
Windfalls from gambling in the Wall Street casino should be taxed at the same rate as wages.
Lobbying the Supercommittee
No moneybags, no service.
Defending Bloated Military Spending
The Pentagon is scrambling to protect its flank in these budget-cutting times.
America’s Government Contracting Bonanza Bilks Taxpayers
On average, Uncle Sam spends nearly twice as much when the government outsources a job as it would if it just hired another “expensive” federal worker.
Cut Deficit, Increase Militarization?
The planned cuts to the bloated U.S. military budget in the debt ceiling deal are long overdue, but lawmakers will likely slash civilian U.S. foreign policy instruments before they significantly reduce military spending.
Scrapping America’s Bootstraps
Entitlements include many of the basic programs that have raised the U.S. standard of living since the FDR administration and before.
Playing Chicken in the Capitol
In Washington, adults are playing games that even slow-witted teenagers don’t play anymore.
Increasing taxes on America’s rich and corporations would end our debt and deficit problems, says IPS analyst
Expert available: Sam Pizzigati, an authority on efforts to levy significant taxes on America’s most wealthy and powerful.
Budgeting for the Great American Train Wreck
Our economy needs a new stimulus package, not a poison pill.
PRESS STATEMENT: IPS Fellow Karen Dolan on “Uncompromising” Republicans in Congress
“Why do these uncompromising Republicans want to impose life-threatening austerity on 98% of us?” asks Dolan
Maceo Protests at Deficit Talks in Washington
A 10-year-old’s perspective of the debt ceiling debacle.
Hollow Deficit Debate Ignores the Burden of Afghanistan Military Spending
Congressman McDermott’s floor speech reminds us that out-of-control Afghanistan spending brought down the Soviet Union.
President Concession
Every time Obama tries to make nice with the Republicans he gets hit in the face with a cream pie.