Budget

Friends In Russian Places: Your Letters

How to measure prosperity; DeLay's Russian cohorts; untangling immigration: Readers react in this week's letters. more »


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Grinch Giving

One of the most common justifications that's trotted out every time someone in Congress proposes a tax cut for rich Americans is more »

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Bad Budget Blunted...For Now

Congressional Quarterly put it this way: "After a fruitless day of arm-twisting, GOP leaders late Thursday gave up for this week on their effort to push a $50 billion, fiv more »

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The Mansion Subsidy

Could the Bush administration really be about to propose ending a subsidy for the wealthy? more »

Not Another Tax Cut

prospect.org — The Fed and the relief spending can mitigate Katrina's long-term economic damage—if the tax-cutters stay out of it.

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America's Third World

America's bloated military spending leaves little left over to reduce the rampant poverty exposed by Hurricane Katrina. more »

Why The Levee Broke

alternet.org — Washington diverted federal funding for Louisiana flood control projects to pay for the war in Iraq.

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