Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Transportation Crisis: Republicans Looking for Hostages, Not Solutions
A stalled effort to get a transportation funding bill through a Senate committee is the latest sign that congressional Republicans won\’t stop playing the zero-sum austerity game.
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Brown: No Tax Giveaway To Fund Roads, Yes To Treating Workers Right
Sen. Sherrod Brown rejects a repatriation tax holiday and instead proposes a different short-term solution for the Highway Trust Fund that would have long-term benefits for workers.
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Let\’s Get Back To Focusing On The Long-Term Unemployed – And Jobs
Legislation introduced Tuesday would restart unemployment benefits for more than 3 million unemployed. But what the long-term unemployed really want and need is our focus on creating more jobs.
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Want Transportation Funding? Close This Egregious Tax Loophole
A leading House Democrat says that making it harder for corporations to use overseas affiliates to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes would help shore up a fund for transportation projects that\’s about to run dry.
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Will Obama Opposition To Repatriation Tax Holiday Kill This Bad Idea?
Just as the White House was registering its opposition to a corporate tax holiday for companies that are sheltering profits overseas, a House Democrat was selling the proposal in a campaign ad.
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Transportation Funding Proposal Forces GOP To Face Its Tax Phobia
A plan unveiled today to keep the federal fund that pays for surface transportation projects from drying up within the next two months comes with some plain truth that Republicans keep trying to avoid.
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\’Customer Protection\’ For Wall Street? GOP Still Doesn\’t Get It
You would think that seeing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fall off his perch would cause his fellow House Republicans to approach their handling of Wall Street interests with a new level of sobriety. Not this week.
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House Republicans Once Again Jam Commuters And Stiff Workers
The vote House Republicans cast Tuesday night to sharply limit funding for the nation\’s transportation projects was a missed opportunity to offer relief to the jobless as well as those stuck in traffic.
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GOP Gets Lost In Search For Highway Funds; Will Senate Find The Way?
A group of senators meets Wednesday to discuss sources of federal funding for transportation projects. Let\’s hope they come up with something better than the stinker left by the House Republican leadership.
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Pollster Celinda Lake\’s New Populism Warning
There are Republican candidates and pollsters \”who get this new populism,\” Celinda Lake told The New Populism Conference last week. If Democrats don\’t effectively align themselves with the populist mood, Republicans will.