November 29, 2017
Tax Reform in the Age of Cynicism
You would think that legislation that dramatically simplifies the tax system for 90% of the American people, gives huge tax cuts to middle-income and working-class people, and really doesn’t do much for the wealthiest in our nation would be wildly...
November 27, 2017
The sexual harassment scandals are like a political forest fire
In 1992, the scandal that embroiled the House of Representatives was the House Bank. Republicans, led by seven rambunctious freshmen, which included among its ranks the now former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), demanded that all incumbents who had used...
November 15, 2017
Tax Reform: The Power To Not Tax Involves the Power to Not Destroy
The power to tax involves the power to destroy. So said John Marshall in his landmark decision McCullough vs. Maryland. The state of Maryland attempted to put the Second Bank of the United States out of business by putting a...
November 13, 2017
The measure of the measure
Republicans are trying to sell their tax-cut package at a very acute angle. They are crunching the numbers and telling their consumers how much they will be getting back from the federal government. But this doesn’t give the true measure...
