I saw this as a proposal for cutting gasoline consumption: One of the easiest and most benign ways to cut energy waste and reduce the nation’s emissions of greenhouse gases…

…and the proposal, in theory, does everything its designers claimed 80 years ago. The first 20 pages of this paper are an excellent primer. Tobin explained the essence of the…

…successful in branding the cuts as Mr. Obama’s idea.” I hope so, since proposal of “the cuts” at issue were the only alternative to a Republican-forced default on America’s already-incurred…

Via Crooks and Liars comes notice of this proposal for corporate/business voting right and elected official in municipal elections, except for school elections (hat tip Dan B.): Rep. Steve Lavin…

President Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 per hour puts the Republicans between a rock and a hard place politically. Paul Krugman echoes the point that a…

…harder for small employers to hire people?” — Dems to use minimum wage against GOP in 2014, Greg Sargent, Washington Post, this morning To me, one of the great frustrations…

…Swift’s brilliant (and certainly modest) proposal was that you should instead find five blogs with lower hits than you and recommend (i.e., promote) them, not drop them. I don’t need…

…the Dutch Socialist Party) noted that while governments are cutting their budgets, multinationals are avoiding taxes, and the Netherlands is functioning as a connecter to the tax havens. The anti-tax…

…budget fights. … Reid figured Democrats could get a more favorable agreement if they waited. When Reid saw an offer that Obama had considered pitching to McConnell on Sunday, which…

…Oval Office to begin his proposal a sellout of SS, Medicare, Medicaid, CHSCH in answer to House Republican? The stage is once again set for the President to emerge as…