Posts Tagged ‘deficits’
Satan Sandwich; Boeing; Meteorologists
(1) Debt Deal as a “Satan Sandwich”: As Vishay Prashad reports in a good article on the debt “crisis” and deal in Counterpunch, Emanuel Cleaver, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, called the deal to lift the debt-ceiling a “sugar-coated Satan Sandwich.” Indeed. (We know what he really wanted to call it.) We just posted ...Read more.
Weisbrot and Epitropoulos on Greece
A Call from Mike-Frank Epitropoulos: Mike Epitropoulos, author of Greece as a Demonstration Project (Dollars & Sense, May/June 2010) called me from Athens a couple of days ago. He’ll be writing another article for us soon about the situation over there. In the meantime, check out this piece he wrote for his Znet page, The ...Read more.
March/April issue: Tax the Rich!
I have lots of stuff to link to; I hope to get to them soon. I have been working to get the March/April issue to the printers (which happened this morning) and to get material from the new issue posted to the website (which happened just now), including our Tax and Deficits Activism Kit, which ...Read more.
More on Property Taxes; More on Bill Black
(1) More from Polly Cleveland on Property Taxes: A couple of posts ago I complained about the New York Times’ coverage of deficits and taxes. The one that really steamed me reported on a NYT/CBS News poll in which a majority of people allegedly preferred cutting spending to raising taxes as a way of dealing ...Read more.
