The report has many good elements, but it fails to face up to revenue realities.
David Callahan
David Callahan is a senior fellow at Demos and editor of PolicyShop, the Demos blog.
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Should Social Security be Part of Fiscal Talks?
It’s possible to make higher earners pick up nearly all the tab for deficit reduction.
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A Mandate for a Conservative Victory on Taxes?
Keeping the bulk of the Bush tax cuts, which mainstream Dems are proposing, is tantamount to “starving the beast”
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Closing the Jobs Gap Requires Much Bigger Thinking
Even if we enter another boom comparable to the Clinton years, it will still take four more years to get back to where we were in 2006.
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Why Should Government Respond Differently to Natural vs. Economic Disasters?
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, you won’t hear public officials saying that devastated towns should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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One Month at the SEC Shows Ongoing Financial Fraud Epidemic
Judging by all the complaints about the Dodd-Frank Act, you might think that Washington over reacted to the financial excesses of a few years ago and that the Feds can now ease up on Wall Street. In fact, though, bad behavior among America’s money men — and yes, those doing wrong are typically men — […]
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Direct Democracy, for Billionaires
In a classic case of unintended consequences, these mechanisms for popular power are routinely used by the rich to change state laws.
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Why Schumer Is (Mostly) Right on Taxes
The Senator from New York counters conservative “Happy Talk”.
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Hey! Hey! Government Is Hiring Again
Today’s jobs report has good news for the public sector.
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Obama and Romney: What About Inequality?
Not mentioning inequality when talking about the middle class is like not mentioning poaching when discussing the future of elephants.