What if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling?
The Republicans are conducting a dangerous bluff intended to suck more cuts in working people's benefits and rights.
Tax Day at a bank near you
Bank of America, Citibank, GE, Exxon Mobil and billionaire CEOs were all found guilty today - on the streets of New York and around the country.
Obama deficit plan met with praise, criticism
President Obama's policy speech on lowering the government deficit by $4 trillion in 12 years drew both praise and criticism from labor and liberal circles.
The rich make off like bandits
Want to know why Federal and state governments are crying poverty?
The government hostage crisis
What to do in a hostage crisis? Sometimes it seems there are no good choices. Giving in to the demands may save the hostage's life for now, but it encourages the terrorist to try again.
A crock pot tax-exempt idea
A Government Accountability Office analysis showed that almost three-fifths of all American-based corporations pay no federal taxes.
Fair taxation requires more brackets at the top
Some of the most affluent Americans actually pay lower effective tax rates than many middle class Americans.
Tax-deductible invasions
However, there is a solution to knowing if Americans want a war or not. Tax checkoff.
Save the children: Tax the rich
The way out of this crisis is to stop blaming the victims and to make the wealthy culprits pay. It is irresponsible and immoral not to do so.
The GOP wants to suppress the student vote
Paul Krugman's recent quip - that the Republican leadership has adopted the slogan "Kill the Future" to counter Obama's "Win the Future" slogan in his State of the Union address - gets truer every day.
