From the daily archives: Thursday, July 21, 2011

Government Spending Cuts Don’t Cut, They Shift Costs To US

By Dave Johnson On July 21, 2011  

The conservatives are following up on their decades-old plan to use tax cuts to create terrible deficits, and then use the resulting “debt crisis” to cut government. But cutting government doesn’t mean the costs go away, it means that we each have to bear those costs ourselves, [...]

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Don’t Be Related to Wal-Mart

By Greg Basta On July 21, 2011  

One of New York City’s largest retail developers, Related, is reportedly in talks to help Walmart build its first of many stores in NYC.  Despite vocal opposition from residents of the East New York section of Brooklyn (in which the store would be built), Related has declined repeated invitations to participate in public forums to [...]

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Raising Taxes on the Rich: How Would They Pay for Their Hookers?!?

By Diane Sweet On July 21, 2011  

Today’s GOP has bet the proverbial farm on Grover Norquist’s ‘No New Taxes’ mantra above and beyond everything else going on with our nation today.

Aside from supporting state’s with new and continued GOP majorities on attacking women’s healthcare, and any attempt to grant LGBT’s equal human rights (All causes that only [...]

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