Do you know what the Laffer Curve is? It’s a graph that represents the relationship between a given income tax rate and the government’s tax revenue. It would be the one set of data you absolutely needed before deciding to pass a multi-trillion dollar tax cut. Pulling the ...read more

• By Rich Herschlag
  Nov 9, 2018

It's hard to put a positive spin on this given how destructive every sane economist believes the GOP's tax plan will be. Reported the New York Times on the plan that just passed in the Senate:  Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

As Trump and the Republican Party ram through the most unpopular tax cuts in US history and the Mueller investigation continues to close in on the president and his election team, Trump's approval ratings across the board are now utterly catastrophic.  A Quinnipiac University ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018

by Kate Harveston In these days of political turmoil and intensifying partisan divide, it's difficult to keep track of the facts. Corporate-owned media outlets on both ends of the political spectrum market their material as unbiased and factual, all while distorting reality for ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

(WARNING: SATIRE!) Early Tuesday morning Republicans Senate leaders convened a hasty vote on their new “Just Trust Us” bill. Although details of the bill are still sketchy Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell assured the American public that “this is what’s best for everyone. ...read more

• By Frederic Poag
  Nov 9, 2018

While the left is still reeling from the abominable tax plan just passed by the Republican Party, NY Mag's Jonathan Chait points out that in the long term, this is about the best thing that could have ever happened to the Democrats. Why? Midterms, midterms, midterms. The policy ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018