The Real Social Security Crisis
It may be difficult to face facts in an election year, but the fact is that Social Security retirement benefits are just too low.
Chained COLAs and the Battle over Social Security
The supercommittee shouldn’t have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.
We Need a Flat Tax for Social Security
It could raise $100 billion and provide a solution to give retired people the raises they need.
With Poverty on the Rise, this is no Time to Slash the Safety Net
The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations.
Does the GOP Hate Women?
Even though they’re afraid to utter the W word, it’s pretty easy to see what their views are on issues concerning the majority of voters.
It’s Time to Study Social Security’s Origins
The Great Depression taught Americans that the costs of unemployment and poverty are shared by all of us.
So You Think You Can be President?
Likening Social Security to a Ponzi scheme was the least crazy thing Perry said during the recent debate among Republican presidential candidates.
Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity: A Redefinition of the Role of Government
Can we really trust for-profit corporations to provide us cost effective health care for those who can’t afford it?
Who’s Buyin’ Ryan? Only the Rich Can Afford To…
Under the guise of debt reduction, the chairman of the House Budget Committee’s budget proposal would take from the already poor, give to the already rich.
Taxes Worth Fighting For
Great lumps of cash and property will now pass tax-free from expired rich geezers, who may or may not have earned them, to their kids–who surely didn’t.
Why Egypt Will Not Turn Into Another Iran
The protests in Egypt will produce a democracy, not a theocracy.
SOTU: Glossing over the Pervasive Suffering Caused by Joblessness
The freeze on the funding of discretionary domestic programs would choke off vital assistance to a shrinking middle class and growing numbers of poor and low-income families.
Not Much to Celebrate with Obama’s Tax Deal
It could spell trouble for Social Security.
Audio-Visual Accountability
Video cameras keep candidates honest on campaign trail.
Good-for-Nothing Commission
No sane politician would vote for any of the changes the commission headed by Bowles and Simpson is recommending, unless he or she is planning to retire early.