Salvatore Babones: European Austerity: Following in America’s Footsteps
Europeans must decide whether their societies are to be governed by the people, for the people or by the market, for the market.
Tag Archives: Deficits
Salvatore Babones: Federal Workers Should Not Have to Pay for the Social Security Tax Cuts
Federal workers have it hard enough without Congress playing politics with their paychecks and pensions.
Salvatore Babones: Make the Payroll Tax Cut Permanent
Congress should stop playing politics with the payroll tax cut and make it permanent by extending Social Security taxes to everyone.
Salvatore Babones: Making the Payroll Tax Cut Revenue-Neutral
All workers should pay Social Security taxes, including those with six, seven, and eight figure incomes.
Salvatore Babones: British and Greek Workers Strike for All of Us
Government workers are standing against a wave of austerity that threatens to swamp us all.
Salvatore Babones: After the Deficit Reduction Supercommittee, Back to School
It’s time to tax and spend
Salvatore Babones: The Greek Debt Crisis: What’s Going on in Europe?
As the economic news in the United States gets worse and worse every week, a lot of Americans are saying “at least we’re not Europe.” To read the press accounts, it sounds like Greece is plunging Europe into a second Great Depression. Greece is having trouble paying its debts, and many people are worried that [...]
A Time When Government Never Shut Down
The United States once taxed the nation’s wealthiest at substantially higher rates than today. In those high tax years, this new Tax Day report from the Institute for Policy Studies documents, Americans prospered. And the federal government never went begging.