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Monthly Archives: March 2016
Republican ‘Takers’ Take Down The Establishment
BY FROMA HARROP Just as Donald Trump did a Super Tuesday stomp on the Republican establishment, the establishment showed why it deserved the rough treatment. The Republican Senate leadership yet again announced its refusal to consider anyone President Obama nominates for the Supreme Court until after the presidential election. It is the job of the […]
To Get America Moving, Tax Financial Transactions
BY JIM HIGHTOWER The financial transaction tax is not an idea whose time has just now come; it simply has returned. From 1914 to 1966, our country taxed all sales and transfers of stock. The tax was doubled in the last year of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to help us recover from the Great Depression. Today, […]
What Will Many Bernie Sanders Voters Do After July?
Hillary’s The One
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Can I say I was right? OK, half right. I was right about Bernie Sanders but not about Donald Trump, which is really too bad, because Trump is a whole lot scarier than Sanders. After all, Sanders has been a working and productive member of the U.S. Senate, while Trump emerged into […]