Deficit am most dangerous thing in universe. That why we not want to raise taxes to pay it down. We am against wealthy paying more taxes, so we say stop deductions to make wealthy pay more taxes.
In a surprise move today, Senator John McCain has demanded at a press conference that a special Senate committee be formed to investigate his own sanity...or as Senator McCain put it, "What do I know and when did I know it? And why? And where are my keys?"
The Republican Party wants to resurface as a reasonable alternative to the Democrats but they are underwater and have an anchor tied around their ankles, named The Tea Party.
Thinking the unthinkable. As horrible as it is to think of this, the wise are doing just that.
Romney's latest set of magic political underwear will not protect him nor the fantasy he wants to promote about being able to repeal the ACA.
In what can only be described as a surprising outcome, Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal Supreme Court judges to uphold the Affordable Care Act and its key provision of the individual mandate.
ALEC dresses up their agenda to lull the public while in the background they work to ensure legislation is geared toward the benefit of Corporations alone and while we may realize some crumbs they deign to throw at us, make no mistake they are in it to win it for themselves and their corporate masters alone.
Referencing the suffrage movement in the 1920's and civil rights supporters in the 1960's, top Republican leaders are nearing a vote in the House of Representatives to pass a law that would give corporations the right of other citizens, to vote in elections.
In his slippery slope argument against the ACA, Justice Alito simply asks us to consider all the people who've been bankrupted and have lost their homes having to pay for their own sudden burial and the ongoing costs of remaining dead.
If the Court finds the mandate unconstitutional, will they find it severable from the rest of the law? If not, that would strike the whole ACA down. If so, can the ACA survive?
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