Even though Ryan features large aggregate tax cuts, ninety percent of Americans would actually pay higher taxes under his plan. In other words, it wasn’t just cuts in middle class benefits in order to cut taxes on the rich. It was cuts in middle class beefits and middle class tax hikes in order to cut taxes on the rich.
~~ What I'm reading ~~
- 5/8/14 -- Oligarchs Aren't Job Creators
- 3/1/12 -- A Civil Right to Unionize
- 2/17/12 -- How to stop cheating on standardized tests
- 2/28/12 -- One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers
- 2/28/12 -- Growing Number Of Americans Can't Afford Food, Study Finds
- 2/21/12 -- Sleep: How Long Can You Go Without It?
- 3/24/11 -- The Empty Rhetoric Of School "Reform"
- 2/25/12 -- Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank attorneys
- 2/21/12 -- We, The People Have To Say, "No You Can't Do That"
- 4/30/11 -- The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries
- 1/20/12 -- Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust
- 2/14/12 -- How secret renditions shed light on MI6's licence to kill and torture
- 2/15/12 -- Leaked Heartland Institute documents pull back curtain on climate scepticism
- 2/11/12 -- Reliance on the Safety Net Rises
- 2/9/12 -- Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies Say
- 2/8/12 -- Pinterest is cashing in on the sly
- 2/4/12 -- Facebook is Using You
- 2/5/12 -- The End of Wall Street As They Knew It
- 5/18/09 -- The Cheney Fallacy
- 2/8/12 -- Why the Bishop is wrong
Monday, April 4, 2011
FEATURED POST: The Anti-Robin Hood
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