There is an ongoing refrain from some that any increase in Taxes will have a negative impact on investment and job creation. Not true in 99.99pct of cases. Never has been. Never will be. First the .01% times where it may be true.
Bobbi Clark:Texas Governor Rick Perry just thru his hat into the Presidential ring –how do you feel about the current field of Republican Presidential Candidates? Brown: “I’m going to be supporting Governor Romney. I know him.
Being reported today by the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren is filing her paperwork to form an exploratory committee to run for the U.S Senate against the pin-up boy model, Senator Scott Brown.
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Reagan's top marginal tax rate was 50% and that was low enough to spur the economy. The wealthy TODAY are keeping 15% more of their profits than they did under Reagan, yet there isn't as much growth. Why?
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Economic prosperity can be tangible or it can be fabricated. During America’s boom times, mainly 1945-1975 we had tangible prosperity, when economic growth was shared by corporations, executives and the worker.
Nike is the world’s largest shoe maker. Some Nike sneakers are selling for over 200 dollars a pair, while the teenage workers in their factories make less than 40 cents an hour, or 16 dollars a week. Labor activist and film maker Michael Moore interviewed Nike CEO, Phi …
“Brown spokesman Colin Reed acknowledged the senator hasn’t yet scheduled a town hall meeting, but said the senator’s attended more than 200 events across Massachusetts and is focused on creating jobs.”
Massachusetts Chairman Takes Senator Scott Brown To Task For Not Holding ONE Town Hall Meeting Since Taking Office In 2010. Many GOP Lawmakers Have Held Town Halls Across This Country, But This Massachusetts Senators Has Not
For the last 30 years the conservative, regressive wing of the Republican party has been dead set on creating an environment that obliterates the government.
The title is shocking, but it could be a reality, to China. Light manufacturing, you know, the manufacturing that used to be in the United States, moved to Japan in the 70s and 80s and ultimately found a home in China. Well those jobs aren’t permanently there either.
The Republican recession took a little over two years to eliminate almost an entire decade of job creation (2000- 2007) and now the GOP wants President Obama to create ten years worth of jobs in 3 years of his first term.
Wal-Mart is the world’s largest retailer and when they approach your city or town in order to build, they hold all the cards.
The Presidential election is going to focus on the economy and specifically manufacturing, at least that is what the American people want to here. Although the GOP contenders have yet to even mumble the word “manufacturing”, President Obama has come forward with …
We need a President with a business background, someone to get the economy growing and stronger. That has been the talking point of the GOP for many months.
This brings me to the second country that is being watched for default, Ireland. Ireland has a corporate tax rate of 12.5%. The unemployment is Ireland is 14.7%
Will the GOP listen to one of their own? Liberals have been saying this for 10+ years now, but had obviously been cast aside by the GOP and conservatives as not important, divisive, and just plain old class warfare.
If progressive policies were in place, all these financial mechanisms would be illegal. In fact, if progressive regulations were in place, too big too fail banks would also be illegal making this collapse of 2008 not even part of our history.
new letter provides evidence that the Wisconsin GOP is coordinating an effort to place fake Democratic candidates on recall election ballots. According to letters obtained by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel local leaders in the Wisconsin Republican Party are organizing …
Oil and gas prices are slowing the economy down to a tragic halt. We have covered this before in previous articles, that the rise in oil and gas prices are due to lack on Wall Street oversight and regulations in the commodities market.
This is the new normal. The United States has become a third world country. As I pointed out in aprevious article, America exports more raw material and imports more finished goods.
About 5,000 New York University graduates filled Yankee Stadium last week to enter their journey into our economy. These graduates are going to be faced with an anemic job market as they venture into the American workforce.
One of the core indicators of a vibrant middle class is home sales within 100K dollar value to 500K dollar value. Since the 2008 Republican Great Recession home sales and ultimately the value of homes have been on a relative decline.
In economics the definition of a third world country is a nation that exports more raw materials, and imports more finished goods.
If the average American citizen actually paid attention to the utter nonsense coming out of the Republicans’ mouths in regards to economics and the economy, the GOP would be expelled from our national and local political discussions.
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