Why is the GOP retreating on tax rates, when you’d expect them to take just the opposite position?
Budget
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Why Republicans Won’t Get Specific
They’re constrained by an operationally liberal public.
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Why Does Obama Want to Spend $8 Trillion on Defense?
Washington is in a fiscal panic, yet surprisingly few people are asking an obvious question: Why in the world is the Obama administration proposing to spend $8 trillion on security over the next decade? Included in that giant sum is not just Pentagon spending, but also outlays for intelligence, homeland security, foreign aid, and diplomacy […]
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Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Understand What the Debt Ceiling Is
Or is it that he knows perfectly well, but wants to mislead the public and the press?
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What Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Means
It means taking seniors off the least expensive, most efficient insurance program to toss them into the individual market.
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Republicans, Exposed
The GOP’s budget plan is just what you’d expect: major cuts to social programs without revenue increases.
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It’s Time to Kill the Debt Ceiling
Let’s use this opportunity to end the prospect of future economic hostage crises.
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Explaining the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Could it really be cut by Congress?
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What Do Republicans Want?
They can’t get away with not stating their positions on the Austerity Trap for too much longer.