The Plan to destroy Obamacare
…destroy Obamacare During the vice-presidential debate, Senator J.D. Vance issued a thinly veiled promise to the nation’s insurance industry that after a Donald Trump win, the GOP will move aggressively…
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Maricopa County officials say it could take as long as 13 days to tabulate 2024 ballots
…and their hammerlock on Maricopa County seemed likely to continue even amid growing Latino dissatisfaction. But that would change, as a new GOP leader emerged. Republicans reconsider The first rumblings…
Congressional Control Goes to Trump and Musk
GOP’s subservience to Trump and Musk is also problematic for Democrats featured at MSNBC originally. The GOP is throwing out the powers that the Constitution gave Congress to better bow…
“Large Upward Redistribution of Income”
…“For everybody else, it will not.” Economist Details How GOP Medicaid Cuts Would Be Disastrous for Everyone—Except the Super-Rich Common Dreams and Jake Johnson The impacts of congressional Republicans’ proposed…
With Help from Trump-GOP Law . . .
“At Least 88 Big US Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax Last Year,” Common Dreams, Stephen Prager Dozens of America’s most profitable corporations avoided paying any federal income taxes…
Oh, No. David Brooks Thinks Social Security and Medicare Are State- and Local-Government Programs. Or Thinks We Do. Seriously. — APPENDED (twice)
…Republican Party can’t win unless it develops what he calls a “Second GOP,” lead by new politicians who are not anti-government. These folks would develop federal programs that would address…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…