How Biden Is Walking His Talk on Unity
…the past, Nancy has written articles for the Washington Monthly. “How Biden Is Walking His Talk on Unity,” Horizons, Nancy LeTourneau, January 27, 2021, There are roughly 11 million undocumented…
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Romney, Family Business, Carried Interest, and potential conflicts of interest
…array of Cayman Islands entities … [It] likely uses ‘blocker corporations’ to help its tax-exempt investors avoid paying the unrelated business income tax. *** In June, the Romney campaign announced…
Thoughts on Campaign Finance I used to be a huge supporter of campaign finance reform. I love the ideal of reducing the influence of money in politics, and the unseemly…
Two Yale law professors think they know what, exactly, the APPEARANCE of quid pro quo corruption looks like. They don’t. But I do.
If the president is to be taken seriously, it’s time for him to make campaign finance a centerpiece of the upcoming campaign. Despite appearances, serious reform remains possible within the…
Can the SEC prohibit publicly-traded corporations from making political expenditures (and, eventually, direct campaign contributions) unless the corporation first gets approval from a majority of shareholders?
…that prohibit corporations from making direct campaign contributions to candidates and political parties. In Citizens United, the court killed statutory bars to corporate and union political so-called-independent expenditures, and, in…
Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Campaign to Dismantle the Post Office
…the businessmen who fund the think tanks, endow universities, make campaign contributions, pay lobbyists, and run the news media. Yet for the most part, they are not to be seen….
Dear AB Readers: Please start a whispering campaign that I am Jewish.
…commercial and a “whispering campaign” that he was Jewish. — John Danforth decries ‘anti-Semitic whispers’ in Tom Schweich eulogy, Nick Gass, Politico, today This is a seriously weird political story,…
Instead of nominating Marco Rubio, the Republicans should just cut out the pretense and nominate his doppelgänger: Charlie McCarthy
…House of Representatives: a dramatic reduction of property taxes and increase in the state sales tax. When Rubio left state government, he got a job teaching at Florida International University,…
Clinton Campaign Spokesman Brian Fallon Says Healthcare Insurance Premiums Aren’t Paid by Families and Employers, Because They’re Paid to Private For-Profit Insurers. Seriously.
…increase your salary or wages. Last weekend, the big read-my-lips-no-new-taxes-on-the-middle-class Clinton line was about the horror of Sanders’s plan to pay for guaranteed family-and-medical leave was through a payroll tax….
The REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition Canard [With fun update!]
…status quo. Or something close to the status quo. In her and her campaign spokesman’s statements in the last several days—most notably her “Read My Lips; No New Taxes on…