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Category Archives: Economic Policy

Kansas Schools Shut Down Early to Pay for Tax Cuts on the Rich/Corporations

April 27, 2015 Austerity Budget Conservative education extremism Inequality Republicans Taxation Leave a comment

A Simple Plan to Cut Military Waste and Reallocate Funds to Programs that Actually Benefit Americans

April 8, 2015 Budget Corporatism Defense Policy Economics education Military Policy Poverty War Leave a comment

The Republican FY16 Budget: A Right Wing Dream that Would be an American Nightmare

March 24, 2015 Budget Deregulation Economic Crisis Economics EPA extremism Insane Republicans Obama Partisan Fighting Regulation Republicans Tax Policy 2 Comments

Information Polls Show a Sickness in the Modern Republican Party

March 2, 2015 education Evolution global climate change Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Public Opinion Religion in Politics Republicans Tea Party 3 Comments

The Audition for the 2016 Right Wing Corporate Lap-Dog has Real Consequences

February 27, 2015 2016 Election Corruption Educational Policy Elections Environmental Policy Money in Politics Partisan Fighting Republicans Tax Policy 3 Comments

Wall Street’s Manchurian Executives

February 20, 2015 Big Banks Corporatism Corruption Economic Crisis Economics Law and Order Money in Politics 1 Comment

Reaganomics or Rigonomics? The Right Wing’s Nonfactual Economic Ideology

February 9, 2015 Conservative Deregulation Economic Crisis Economics Tax Policy Trickle Down Economics 2 Comments

The GOP’s 2015 Plan: Burn Society’s Bridges

January 27, 2015 Corporate Greed Corporatism Corruption Deregulation Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tax Policy Taxation Trickle Down Economics 3 Comments

Three Graphs Paint a Foreboding Economic Picture

December 26, 2014 Corporate Greed Corporate Welfare Economic Bubble Economic Crisis Economics Tax Policy 3 Comments

The Cromnibus is a Bipartisan Goody Bag to Big Money Lobbyists

December 16, 2014 Budget Campaigns Deregulation Economics Environment EPA Military military waste Money in Politics Pollution 2 Comments

Progressive Tactics: Unified Wordsmithing Part II

November 24, 2014 Deregulation Environment Media Policy Progressive propaganda Tax Policy 3 Comments

What Trait is Shared by the American Corporate Elite and the Common Goldfish?

September 5, 2014 Bankers Corporate Greed Corporatism Economic Crisis Economics Inequality Poverty Taxation 2 Comments

On Labor Day, Remember the Plight of American Workers

September 1, 2014 Corporate Greed Economics Inequality Labor Rights Unemployment Unions worker's rights 1 Comment

Red America vs. Blue America: State Maps Illustrate the Difference

August 15, 2014 Conservative Health Policy Partisan Fighting Policy Progressive 41 Comments

The Purge Anarchy: Social Commentary on the NRA, Austerity and Class Warfare

July 24, 2014 2nd Amendment Class Warfare Criminal Justice extremism guns Inequality Legal Injustice Media nra Racism 12 Comments

Right Wing Politicians in Robes May Have Just Killed Obamacare

July 22, 2014 Congress Conservative Corporatism Corruption extremism Health Policy Legal Injustice ObamaCare Supreme Court 2 Comments

Republicans Trade Short-Term Economic Gains for Long-Term Losses

July 14, 2014 Austerity Economic Crisis Economics education Health Policy Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Tea Party Trickle Down Economics 1 Comment

The US Distribution of Wealth is Like a Canal with Broken Locks

June 12, 2014 Democrats Distribution of Wealth Economic Crisis Economics Inequality Republicans Taxation Trickle Down Economics 3 Comments

Three Birds with One Stone: Protect the Post Office, Increase Banking Access for the Poor, and Make Student Loans More Affordable

May 22, 2014 De Economic Crisis Economics education Inequality Post Office Poverty student loans 1 Comment

Is the USA Center-Right? An Issue-by-Issue Breakdown

May 2, 2014 Abortion Conservative Defense Policy global climate change Gun Control Health Policy Immigration Policy Inequality Partisan Fighting Policy political candidates Progressive Regulation Tax Policy Taxation Women's Rights 12 Comments

The Over-Simplicity and Ineffectiveness of Right Wing Economics

May 1, 2014 Conservative Economic Crisis Economics Partisan Fighting propaganda 4 Comments

The Bundy Ranch Stand-Off: Free Riders, Armed Extremists and Federal Agents

April 18, 2014 2nd Amendment Conservative Criminal Justice extremism Gun Control guns Libertarian Tax Policy Tea Party 83 Comments

How to Force the Right Wing into Empathizing with Women on the Gender-Based Pay Gap

April 11, 2014 Conservative Economics Inequality Wage Gap Women's Rights 4 Comments

Magic Thinking and the GOP

March 19, 2014 Conservative Environment Gun Control Insane Republicans Partisan Fighting Policy Republicans Social Conservative Tea Party Voting 3 Comments

Decoding Obama’s January 2014 State of the Union

January 30, 2014 Corporatism Democrats Immigration Policy minimum wage Obama ObamaCare Republicans State of the Union Trans-Pacific Partnership Undocumented Immigration Leave a comment

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