North Carolina is coming up on the outside in the race to be the crazier of the Carolinas. Headline: North Carolina Lawmakers Ram Through Plan That Would Increase Taxes On Poor People “Those with average incomes of nearly $1 million would receive a total tax cut of nearly $10,000,” the North Carolina Justice Center estimated, …
Kevin Drum has a blog post up which views the state of student loan debt with alarm and dismay, and I share his concern. He notes that it’s a generational thing, too: It’s also yet another fault line between young and old that’s not likely to turn out well. My generation got a cheap college …
Yesterday I went to Safeway to pick up three or four things. While in the produce section I was waylaid by a bin of peaches saying seductively “Me! You want me!” So I pulled one of the little clear plastic sacks off the dispenser and picked up three of the stone fruits. I got to …
What I don’t get at all is how the Dems could vote for this FAA deal without realizing how bad it would look. In the immortal words of Casey Stengel, “Can’t anyone here play this game?” They had to know caving on this would give the Republicans a win, and they had to know caving …
I never thought I’d see the day that a Democratic President would include cutting Social Security as part of his budget proposal to Congress. A key feature of the plan Obama is proposing for the federal budget year beginning Oct. 1 is a revised inflation adjustment called “chained CPI.” This new formula would effectively curb …
The Huffington Post set out to do an extensive review of sequestration stories from the past week, with the goal of finding 100. What seemed like a daunting task was completed in hours. No one region of the country has been immune. Rural towns in Alaska, missile test sites in the Marshall Islands, military bases …
The Huffington Post commits journalism; world applauds. It’s done several video mashups of national Republicans scorning the effects of the sequester and local TV news outlets detailing just what the effects are in their cities and towns. Recovery efforts following a tornado in Atlanta are being drained of federal help because of sequestration related cuts. …
Greg Sargent: A number of us have argued that the facts plainly reveal that Republicans are far more to blame than Obama and Democrats for the current crisis. The GOP’s explicit position is that no compromise solution of any kind is acceptable — this must be resolved only with 100% of the concessions being made …
How will your state fare if the idiots Republicans don’t make a deal with the President to avoid the ham-handed cuts the sequester will automatically make? Answer here. Example: Here in Hawai’i we have the Pearl Harbor Shipyard, and it’s got maintenance jobs ongoing. If sequestration happens, In Hawaii, approximately 20,000 civilian Department of Defense …
Went to Safeway to get sour cream and mushrooms to go with our tri-tip this evening. Swiped my Safeway store card into the machine to take advantage of the savings it gives me. Got home, looked at the receipt. “Card savings — .20” Total savings value — 1 % (of purchase price) Woohoo!