SOTU: Use Newfound Corporate Tax Revenue to Invest in America
Some of this revenue should be used for long overdue investments in education, health care, and energy retrofits.
Energy Beast Still Running Wild
It’s easier for Wall Street to keep milking current fossil and agricultural fuel subsidies.
Buses Are the Answer
Developing a vibrant bus network would cost peanuts, compared with high-speed rail options.
Simmering Water War
Boneheaded executives and greed-headed investors might be draining the fresh water supplies where you live.
Reaching the Boiling Point
Our aging water systems are long past due for a major overhaul.
I’m a Genetic Lottery Winner–Tax Me!
The estate tax is a critical source of revenue at a time when our nation needs it most.
Hope Dims for Electricity Reform
Basically, change is slow, slow, slow.
Raise My Taxes, Please
Those of us who have disproportionately benefited from these investments have a corresponding patriotic responsibility to reinvest in the common good.
Wall St. Bonuses Come at a Bad Time
Why has the financial industry recovered so quickly, when the rest of America is still hurting?
Billions for War, Peanuts for Disaster
Unfortunately, the U.S. government has not yet learned the lessons of Katrina.
Flooding the Future
Gigantic dams have returned to Latin America, reports columnist Laura Carlsen, and they’re just as destructive as the old ones.
Getting Iraq to Pay More Is Not the Answer
Congress should stop blaming the Iraqi government for our economic woes.
How Much is Enough?
Columnist Frida Berrigan wonders, what ever happened to peace, love, and cutting the U.S. military budget?