Chained COLAs and the Battle over Social Security
The supercommittee shouldn’t have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.
America Is Not Broke: Fiscal Reforms that Washington Needs to Consider
Taxing Wall Street, corporations and the wealthy; taxing pollution and ending environmentally harmful subsidies; and cutting military spending to bring America back.
Sequestering Military Spending
Even if sequestration cuts across all military programs, this sort of ham-handed approach is safely doable.
As Supercommittee Fails, New IPS Report Proposes Better Budget Reforms
While the Supercommitee appears ready for failure, new report lays out reforms worth $824 billion per year – seven times the supercommittee’s mandate.
Occupy the Budget
How to pay for the crisis while making our nation more equitable, green, and secure.
If the Super-Committee Fails, America Wins
Any agreement that would come forth from the SuperCommittee will inevitably be disastrous for domestic social programs.
Nuclear Turkeys
The Pentagon has too much hardware once thought necessary to defeat the Soviet Union.
Foreign Influence: Inappropriate for Lawmakers Tasked with Shrinking the Deficit
The supercommittee’s members shouldn’t accept campaign contributions from lobbyists representing foreign governments or companies.
Equal Taxation for Wealth and Work
Windfalls from gambling in the Wall Street casino should be taxed at the same rate as wages.
Lobbying the Supercommittee
No moneybags, no service.
House Armed Services Committee Hearing Misleading on Doomsday Projections
Hearing on military spending, jobs, and the economy leaves out one side of the story, say experts.
Defending Bloated Military Spending
The Pentagon is scrambling to protect its flank in these budget-cutting times.
Paving Over the Money Pit of Nuclear-Weapons Spending
Congress finally balks at feeding the exotic flowers in our national Giant Shop of Horrors: our nuclear weapons program.
How to Achieve Transparency for the Supercommittee
Every campaign contribution to members of this powerful panel should be reported every single day.
Military Spending Belongs on the Table
The supercommittee seems unlikely to make substantial military cuts and instead quite likely to cut spending for the other agencies under the “security spending” umbrella, even though the Pentagon gets the lion’s share of that category’s funding.