Bill Scher

  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    February 3, 2012 - 9:39am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: Don't Break Out The Bubbly
    • Unemployment Rate Ticks Down
    • Romney Economic Message Tied Up In Knots
    • President Roots Fight Against Inequality In His Faith
    • SEC Goes Easy On Banks
    • Corporations Warm To Super PACs
    • Breakfast Sides
  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    February 2, 2012 - 7:21am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: The Republican Myth Of Obama’s Entitlement Society
    • Romney Doubles Down On Dismissing Poverty
    • Obama Proposes, Boehner Rejects Refi Plan
    • GOP Tries To Extend Fed Worker Pay Freeze
    • Breakfast Sides
  • February 1, 2012 - 11:39am

    Today, the nation is abuzz over Mitt Romney bluntly cold comment: "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there."



    This is not a slip of the tongue. This is what he believes. We know, because he said it before.

    In October, I reported here that Romney made this exact same argument while stumping in Iowa: "In our country, the people who need the help most are not the poor, who have a safety net, not the rich, who are doing just fine, but the middle class."

    Why would Romney repeatedly make this claim? Here's my analysis from October:

  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    February 1, 2012 - 8:53am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: Taxpayer-Backed Mortgage Giant Bets Against Its Customers
    • WH To Reveal New Refi Plan
    • House GOP Threatens Transportation Jobs Bill
    • "Buffet Rule" Proposed In Senate
    • FL Win Doesn't End Questions About Romney
    • GOP Obstruction On Taxes Increases Deficit
  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    January 30, 2012 - 9:34am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: Why Aren't Mitt & Newt Talking Social Security in FL?
    • Europe Admits: Austerity's a Bust
    • No Settlement Yet
    • Businessman Presidents Are Failures
    • Breakfast Sides
  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    January 27, 2012 - 9:42am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: Democracy V. Plutocracy
    • Economic Growth Picks Up Pace
    • Obama Sells Energy Strategy
    • Romney V. Truth
    • Pentagon Cuts Budget, Or Does It?
    • Public Demands Action On Housing Crisis
  • January 26, 2012 - 1:39pm

    Yesterday, one of Politico's headlines from the State of the Union was: "He steals GOP's 'all of the above' energy slogan."

    But something can only be stolen from you if you actually had it in the first place.

  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    January 26, 2012 - 9:40am

    On the menu this morning

    • MORNING MESSAGE: Are Schneiderman And Liberal Groups Selling Out?
    • President Pushes "Insourcing" After SOTU
    • Low Expectations For Legislation
    • Indiana On Verge Of Enacting Anti-Union Law
    • GOP '12 Race Meets Latino Voters
  • Published Progressive Breakfast (Blog entry)
    January 25, 2012 - 9:25am

    On the menu this morning:

    • MORNING MESSAGE: The Defining Issue Of Our Time
    • President Frames The 2012 Debate in SOTU
    • President Announces New Bank Investigation
    • Tax Fight Brews In Congress
    • Public Stews Over Romney's Low Taxes
    • Breakfast Sides
  • January 24, 2012 - 12:39pm

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    ROMNEY: Under that plan, I'd have paid no taxes in the last two years.

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    Now that we have seen Mitt Romney's tax returns and have a clearer glimpse at how the Bush-shaped tax code continues to favor multimillionaires, we can more easily answer the question: what would Mitt Romney and others like him contribute in taxes if he or his chief rival Newt Gingrich became President?