Unlike the shady fiscal roulette that lawmakers often play with your tax dollars, PB gives ordinary people leverage to direct spending according to their idea of the greater good.
William D. Hartung, TomDispatch.com. March 20, 2012.
When it comes to the American military, the leading Republican presidential candidates evidently only learned to add and multiply, never subtract or divide.
Can we organize to actively move our money from the corporations that control our political systems, and invest in more just and sustainable economies?
Americans have been told that austerity measures and shared suffering are the path to economic recovery, but in fact, many fixes could dramatically improve our lives.
Conservatives have spent 30 years divorcing the taxes we pay from the services they finance -- no wonder the public doesn't know where their tax dollars go.
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This proposal still places a greater financial burdens on the lower- and middle-class Americans while easing those of the wealthy who can most afford it.
Congress will either cut government outlay before a full economic recovery, or increase public spending and put Americans back to work. Much depends on Obama's leadership.
