Posts by: Adam Lambert

Income tax cuts are the problem, not the solution

By Adam Lambert On January 20, 2012  

Much has been made about income taxes and income tax cuts – not just by Republicans, who base their entire economic plan on less taxes (which of course will usually vastly benefit their base by every conceivable metric), but also by Democrats lately as a way to provide stimulus or help in a time of [...]

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NJ’s RGGI Pullout: the Latest Christie-Koch Wink-Nod?

By Adam Lambert On June 8, 2011  

As noted over at Blue Jersey, the lead Iowa Republican funder who Governor Christie met with during “CopterGate” was Koch business partner Bruce Rastetter. There is a very interesting history between Rastetter, the Koch brothers, their business interests and Chris Christie – and given Christie’s history of rewarding his cronies with lucrative [...]

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The basic fallacy of “privatization”

By Adam Lambert On March 2, 2011  

I put “privatization” in quotes because it is really corporatization, and quite frankly is a much better term for the further theft of taxpayer dollars for the well connected corporate class.

The arguments that the right and the pro-corporate/”free market” crowd make are in direct conflict with the entire rationale for privatization corporatization of public [...]

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“Maybe you shouldn’t have supported trillions in unfunded wars…”

By Adam Lambert On February 28, 2011  

What “the great deficit debate” really boils down to is one thing: priorities.

Deficits weren’t a priority when nearly all Republicans and a good number of Democrats voted for the ill conceived and ill advised invasions and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq close to a decade ago. They weren’t a priority when tens, if not [...]

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A Blueprint For Economic Disaster

By Adam Lambert On February 24, 2011  

Make no mistake – the demonization of public workers is just the latest in a long series of distractions by the right wing and economic elite as they pick the pockets of the “other 95% of Americans”. This coordinated approach is nothing new, but the agenda of wealth theft is taking on a new form [...]

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