A new IPS briefing paper highlights the unique role of tax policy in wealth concentration. By Chuck Collins, Bob Lord [Cross-posted from Inequality.org] [Note to BfAZ readers: I’ve cut my legal work way back to focus my efforts on helping to reverse the horrendous tax policy choices of the past four decades. This piece I … Read more
Kyrsten Sinema has been a good Senator for all Arizonans. I voted for her in 2018 and will probably do so again if she is the Democratic nominee in 2024. That said, it does not mean I have to agree with her on every issue to support her. Her position, articulated on February 12, 2021, … Read more
While his seditious-insurrectionist Predecessor was undergoing a record second impeachment trial, President Joe Biden met with some of the nations leading CEOs to gain greater support for the COVID 19 American Rescue Plan. Saying “the American People are hurting and a lot of people are in real trouble,” President Biden, along with Vice President Harris and … Read more
Last week Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, who defend the filibuster, voted in favor of a budget resolution by the reconciliation process. That budget resolution includes President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief package that includes $1,400 relief payments to Americans (combined with the $600 enacted in December, rounds up to $2,000). Sens. Joe Manchin … Read more
After meeting with House Democrats at the White House, President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellin urged the quick passage of a BIG COVID American Rescue Act. Reinforced by the Senate passage of a budget resolution allowing reconciliation early this morning (February 5, 2021) and the … Read more