Wednesday's Daily Brief

2009-04-15

The Daily Brief

Robert L. Borosage:Taxing Matters

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Robert L. Borosage: Tax Day. Fox News is flogging Astroturf "tea parties" underwritten by corporate lobbyists, while its pundits warn that raising the top income tax rate to the level it was under Bill Clinton constitutes "socialism." The Wall Street Journal editorializes about the evils of the estate tax. Ari Fleischer, Daddy Bush's old flack, is trotted out to complain that "redistribution of income" through the tax code "is getting out of hand." Really? Here's the grim reality. Since 1980, when the conservative era began, inequality has reached Gilded Age extremes - while top end tax rates have been cut. The wealthiest few captured ever more of the nation's income while successfully lowering their tax rates. Click here to read more.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Let My Vote and Every Vote Be Counted

National Republicans are trying to turn the 20th District of New York into the next Minnesota. It is wrong. Let my vote and every vote be counted.

Paul Begala: Al Franken Wins Minnesota Senate Race...Again

If character were oil, Norm Coleman would be a quart low. He has lost the Minnesota Senate race -- well, he lost it five months ago. He also lost the recount. And the lawsuit. You see a trend here? Norm, buddy, you lost.

Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck is Thomas Paine, Except for Everything

Do you like estate taxes? Paine was pitching them in 1791. How about progressive taxation? Paine wasn't just for it, he made charts and graphs. Welfare? Absolutely.

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Where Were the Teabag Protests 8 Years Ago?

Conservatives are protesting because they are out of power. They aren't protesting spending; if they were, they would have taken to the streets years ago.

Penny Herscher: Technology, Not War, Is the Solution to Publishing

The global publishing giants have declared war on the new technology generation of content distributors -- but they have lost sight of what consumers value and how they want to get to the value.

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