Replacing "Trickle Down" with "Gusher Up"
By focusing his attention on the "middle class," the election of Barack Obama will end the Republican "trickle down" philosophy and replace it with a "gusher up" economy. Barack has clearly proven he...
View ArticleBilly Kristol Explains All ...
UPDATED WITH POLLWilliam Kristol unlike his other conservative Republican intellectuals has decided to go down with the McCain Ship. While most of his cocktail party buddies consider Sarah Palin an...
View ArticleUpdated with Poll: Let's Get the State Out of Marriage
When women were chattel, the state's paternalism in protecting women from abandonment and divorce made sense. Until only about 120 years ago, women in the US could not even own property. The state's...
View ArticleThe Coming Anti-Clinton Presidency
The popular commentary on Barack's appointments thus far is that they presage a Clinton III term. As good as that would feel after Bush II and III terms, Barack is about to take the Country in the...
View ArticleObama Gets the Worst Tax Advice while Republicans Pick our Pockets
President Obama understands that to govern well one needs a vision and principles and a willingness to accept 80% as a win. However, on tax policy, his team is, frankly and scarily, clueless. Worse...
View ArticleNo Free Lunch: Paying for Health Care Reform in a Principled Way
In yesterday's diary I posited that the Obama Administration lacks any clear vision for tax policy. I suggested that there is a principled way to pay for health care reform and they had not found it....
View ArticleFocus the Pitchforks-A Millionaire Surtax that Won't Hurt Small Business
The Pitchforks are out! How can we funnel the anger into something constructive? If you can pass a 90% tax rate, why not a 50% tax rate on all income over $1 million?The problem with tax rate...
View ArticleA Universal Tax to Pay for Universal Health Care
How do politicians enact a substantial middle class benefit like health care reform when many in that middle class are happy with their health insurance? They rely on a bad economy that create doubts...
View ArticleRepublican Health Care Talking Points Go Unanswered
When I am home from work, I have the dubious pleasure to listen all day to cable news. Because the stories start to repeat, I find myself having exhausted MSNBC and CNN and forced to turn to Fox...
View ArticleRolling with the Punches: Medicare for All Over 55
Those of us who favor real health care reform need to have a back up plan should the Senate Finance Committee version of health care reform continue to progress. In my view the principal cause of the...
View ArticleThe 5% Solution
Although the Oil Spill may open heretofore closed eyes as to the necessity of a robust federal government to counter when necessary the reckless and insensitive behavior of global corporations, frankly...
View ArticleThe Supreme Solution: Kill the Mandate But Don't Change the Law
I am a lawyer, a libertarian and a liberal -- not necessarily in that order. I know, a libertarian lawyer is an oxymoron: like "jumbo shrimp" or apropos "consistent conservative." All three parts of...
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