Rep. Patrick Tiberi [R-OH12], on Oct 6, 2011, proposed HR 3123, the American Job Creation and Investment Act of 2011. The title may imply the bill will have some meaningful efforts to promote job creation, but when you read the bill’s description, you’ll quickly learn
Heads up: Congress is debating a compromise to HR1 (the draconian House Continuing Resolution Budget bill) that would be devastating to Nevada. Here’s a link to the original bill: HR1 — Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2011. You can access my analysis of the
House Speaker John Boehner has spent more than a month without doing any legislative work to create jobs. Now, he’s telling middle class workers who might lose their job upon passage of the House Republican budget, “So be it!” That GOP budget
We need to energize our base to get out and vote in November and vote against Republicans running for the US House and US Senate. Analysis indicates we stand to lose yet another 1.1 million jobs if they get the opportunity to
This morning, I got yet another hoax email in my inbox that’s been designed to disturb voters and persuade them to vote for Republican candidates in this fall’s election. The bogus email goes something like this: This should help stimulate the Real
If you haven’t dropped by FactCheck.org lately, you should. They’ve now had time to fact-check the GOP’s Pledge to America announced by the GOP on September 23rd. Their analysis revealed that the GOP is using some very dubious information (I’ll not call
The Bush Tax Cuts lowered tax rates across the board on income, dividends and capital gains; eventually eliminated the estate tax; further lowered burdens on married couples, parents and the working poor; and increased tax credits for education and retirement savings. They
