Tim Pawlenty’s Dippy Dive into ‘Deep Doo-Doo’

One of the three ‘serious’ candidates for the 2012 Republican White House bid says the tax cuts for the rich he’s proposing will expand America’s ‘entrepreneurial’ class. What does history say? <

Deconstructing the Paul Ryan Sound Bite

Real policy wonks bore people. The phony wonk from Wisconsin now driving Congress seduces, with a patter that leaves our wealthy almost completely disappeared.

The Right’s Pushback Against Taxing the Rich

The rising public clamor for higher taxes on America’s wealthy has conservative ideologues increasingly uneasy. For good reason. They don’t have the numbers on their side. Or much history either. Read more . . .

The Bait-and-Switch on Fleecing Taxpayers

Lavishly paid corporate executives, flush with tax-deductible taxpayer dollars, have plenty of reason to relish the right-wing assault on ‘overpaid’ public employees. But we can wipe that grin off their faces.

Taxes, Transparency, and Our Opaque Opulent

Mega-millionaire residents of Manhattan’s finest luxury towers pay less of their income in federal taxes than the janitors in their towers do. Once upon a time, we had a law that discouraged that distinction.

Wisconsin Wake-Up: ‘Fight like an Egyptian’

Wisconsin’s capitol continues to reverberate with the sound and fury of workers and students united — against the ‘Mubarak of the Midwest’ and the wealthy he so diligently shields from any inconvenience.

Finding the Good in the ‘Good Old Days’

It’s federal budget time, and they’re talking 1950s on Capitol Hill. Well, sometimes we can move forward by turning the political clock back. But we have to know exactly where to stop.

The Tax That Turned Ronald Reagan Right

With the centennial of our 40th President’s birth now upon us, how about a shout-out for the soak-the-rich tax rates that he so despised — and more civic-minded Hollywood stars so enthusiastically embraced.

Brutal Bookends: Our Middle’s Final Squeeze?

New governors in New York and California seem hell-bent on delivering a knockout blow to America’s most historic social contribution, the mass middle class.

Locking In Inequality for Another Generation

A widely overlooked provision in last month’s tax cut deal is going to speed even more wealth to America’s Paris Hilton set.