Presidential elections are seldom pretty to watch, but earlier this year there was wide agreement that Americans were in for a serious contest of ideas — with a historic debate over goverment’s role front and center. That seemed all the more likely when Mitt Romney chose super wonk Paul Ryan as his running mate. Now, […]
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Financial Elites Get the Most Help of All
Mitt Romney’s complaint that nearly half of us are untaxed government dependents, poisoning the country with an “entitlement” mentality, is the strangest yet to emerge from the twisted moral universe of America’s most government-dependent class, the financial elite. Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. As my colleague David Callahan noted in an earlier […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Financial Elites Get the Most Help of All
Mitt Romney’s complaint that nearly half of us are untaxed government dependents, poisoning the country with an “entitlement” mentality, is the strangest yet to emerge from the twisted moral universe of America’s most government-dependent class, the financial elite. As my colleague David Callahan noted in an earlier post, most of the people who don’t pay […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Financial Elites Get the Most Help of All
Mitt Romney’s complaint that nearly half of us are untaxed government dependents, poisoning the country with an “entitlement” mentality, is the strangest yet to emerge from the twisted moral universe of America’s most government-dependent class, the financial elite. Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. As my colleague David Callahan noted in an earlier […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Earned Sick Time Denied in Orange County, Florida
Citizens in Orange County, Florida will not have a chance to vote for paid sick leave on November 6th due to the fierce opposition of business allies. Earlier this summer, the Citizens for a Greater Orange County gathered 50,000 signatures to place an initiative, called Earned Sick Time, to require any business with more than […]
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Earned Sick Time Denied in Orange County, Florida
Citizens in Orange County, Florida will not have a chance to vote for paid sick leave on November 6th due to the fierce opposition of business allies. Earlier this summer, the Citizens for a Greater Orange County gathered 50,000 signatures to place an initiative, called Earned Sick Time, to require any business with more than […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Earned Sick Time Denied in Orange County, Florida
Citizens in Orange County, Florida will not have a chance to vote for paid sick leave on November 6th due to the fierce opposition of business allies. Earlier this summer, the Citizens for a Greater Orange County gathered 50,000 signatures to place an initiative, called Earned Sick Time, to require any business with more than […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bankrupt Policies on Student Loan Debt
Last week you may have seen my brother Dave grimacing on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. He was the posterboy for Peter Coy’s cover story, “Student Loans: Debt for Life,” about the more than $1 trillion in student loan debt owed by US borrowers. The article provided a sobering look at the problems facing young […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bankrupt Policies on Student Loan Debt
Last week you may have seen my brother Dave grimacing on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. He was the posterboy for Peter Coy’s cover story, “Student Loans: Debt for Life,” about the more than $1 trillion in student loan debt owed by US borrowers. The article provided a sobering look at the problems facing young […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bankrupt Policies on Student Loan Debt
Last week you may have seen my brother Dave grimacing on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek. He was the posterboy for Peter Coy’s cover story, “Student Loans: Debt for Life,” about the more than $1 trillion in student loan debt owed by US borrowers. The article provided a sobering look at the problems facing young […]