…began their forty year decline. They emphasize the central role of Congressional and Presidential decision-making that has given us tax rules favoring the 1%, laws allowing private equity and other…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: PPACA Penalty/Tax The Congressional Budget Office predicts in 2016 up to 6 million largely middle income workers will pay the PPACA “tax”…

…equipment — 44 armored Humvees and hundreds of TOW missiles — to Bahrain’s oil-rich monarchy. Despite some Congressional opposition, the Obama administration used a legal loophole to move forward with…

…in November, women–and men who like women–come out to vote. The turnout, not just in the Presidential contest, but in many Congressional races, will determine who takes over Washington. Before…

…enforcement of securities laws. Despite a decade or more of Congressional and Supreme Court efforts to reduce liability for those corporate and financial officers who design and perpetrate such complex…

…that a combination of Congressional and Supreme Court actions have virtually relieved these professional advisers of liability for client advisory services. In short, it is hard to prosecute securities fraud…

…will concede leadership to congressional conservatives: All we have to do is replace Obama. … We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us…

…“making work pay” supports like an expanded EITC, which was enacted at Clinton’s insistence well before welfare reform) and that of congressional Republicans (House Republicans were mainly concerned about punishing…

…[The Latest News on Tax Fairness] that unfairly claimed that the Congressional Budget Office had demonstrated that the most affluent Americans were “overtaxed.” That op-ed contained many rhetorical tricks and…

…off four such possibilities. The first two are proposals from the Obama Administration which have been stonewalled by Congressional Republicans: (1) accelerating public investment in infrastructure; and (2) using Federal…