Zombie Politics

I am a Republican voter. I just did our taxes. The @GOP tax bill cost my family THOUSANDS of dollars this year on our return due to ch...

I've been thinking a lot recently about the argument we hear all the time from the gun humpers about how their hard earned money is take...

Donald Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said today that the tax plan put forward by his boss will "the biggest tax cut a...

I live in a state that has high taxes and government spending. In 2013, our Democratic governor raised taxes on the wealthy and increased sp...

Scott Walker recently announced a $500 million dollar stadium deal for the Milwaukee Buck s, half of which will be funded by taxpayers. Some...

Minnesota got another shout out for having a great economy despite the "destruction" that raising taxes, increasing the minimum w...

I've put this map up before but I've had a few requests via email to put it up again. The states in red represent who gets the most...

It appears that Republicans are finally getting the message : middle class economics works. At least eight Republican governors have ventu...

Last Friday, the president spoke in my hometown and NPR in Minnesota aired  a post speech analysis . At about the 12 minute mark, Keith Down...

Senator Ted Cruz, Republican from Texas, speaking on Jeb Bush's recent remarks on immigration, said the following. We’re a nation of ...

Here's a great example of the gift of jobs that tax breaks bring. 15 jobs. Wow. That'll sure make a dent in Detroit's problem...

The last two weeks of shutdown have seen several mentions of the Big Lie that government spending does not increase economic activity nor is...

This. The Congressional Budget Office said the unanticipated $203 billion cut to the current-year shortfall -- a 24 percent drop from just...

Nick Hanauer has come up again in some various conversation I have had and I remembered that I wanted to put his TED talk (repressed for a w...

It's been amusing in a sort of horrifying way to watch Congress try to come up with some sort of plan to avert the tax rate rise and spe...