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Recent polls show Americans would rather reduce the deficit by raising taxes than by cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, education and transportation. Yet Congress seems incapable of making that kind of deal. Some 65 percent of Americans want to raise taxes on large corporations, but both parties are heading in precisely the opposite direction.
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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We’re still legislating and regulating private morality, while ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America.
Posted on Mar 25, 2013
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If there was ever a time for the Democratic Party to champion working Americans and reverse these troubling trends, it is now — forging an alliance between the frustrated middle and the working poor.
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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The biggest problems we face are unemployment, stagnant wages, slow growth and widening inequality—not deficits. The major goal must be to get jobs and wages back, not balance the budget.
Posted on Mar 14, 2013
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The Republican Party makeover is breathtaking. Now, suddenly, instead of accusing Democrats of being “redistributionists,” the GOP is posing as defender of the middle class against corporate America—and it’s doing so by proposing to do away with the most progressive piece of legislation in well over a decade.
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
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Republicans lost the election but they still shape what’s debated in Washington—the federal budget deficit and so-called fiscal responsibility.
Posted on Mar 11, 2013
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