Update 1: Have you called your office, to express outrage yet? Here's his DC number: (202) 224-4543 Please, take 2 minutes and call. This matters. … [Read more...]
Archives for December 9, 2010
Pioneer Presents The 2011 Massachusetts Spending Map
Where do your tax dollars go? Massachusetts state government provides services through hundreds of departments, agencies, and programs. Is your money going to your priorities? Is state government organized efficiently? Splintered? … [Read more...]
“The Magic Year for the Rich: 1982”
The WSJ reports on a paper by Northwestern economists Jonathan A. Parker and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen that traces the recent rise of the rich to 1982, Reagan's second year in office: First, the top 1% of income earners started to increase … [Read more...]
Snippets and Seeds
Physicist Steven Weinberg on the importance of the 2004 presidential election: ...When I argue that we need to elect a president and Congress willing to raise taxes and spend more on searching for nuclear weapons in container ships, … [Read more...]
Obama explains himself
I think it is fair to say that the tenor of discussion on BMG with respect to Obama's recent tax proposal is negative (read the dozens of comments in the posts below). Isolated examples of support highlight the degree to which the president … [Read more...]
Update on Possible Tied Election for State Rep
Yesterday was the first court date for the challenged ballot in the recount in the Sixth Worcester District. You may recall that the election between Geraldo Alicea and Peter Durant looks to be a dead tie, if all ballots are counted. … [Read more...]
Tax Cut Deal = Beautiful Ideological Framework
Think about it this way. The Democrats fought for - and will probably win - unemployment benefits, tax cuts for the poor and middle class, and tax breaks for small businesses. The Republicans fought for -- wait for it -- tax cuts for … [Read more...]
Senator Scott Brown is no good for seniors
by giving you this COLA. It is more important that they increase the deficit by giving millionaires an extra 100K instead. … [Read more...]
Lucy, Hold the Football Again!
We all know this is going to be the way it goes down. There will be a one year extension next year, since the political season'll be heating up, and then another, and another, maybe longer one. One way or the other, the FICA tax cut will be … [Read more...]
On Pushing The Unwilling, Or, Laughter: A Tool Of Asymmetric Warfare?
"...Private Pyle has dishonored himself, and dishonored the platoon. I have tried to help him, but I have failed. I have failed because you have not helped me. You people have not given Private Pyle the proper motivation." --R. Lee Ermey, … [Read more...]