[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Citizens United President Enjoys ‘Bitching And Moaning’ Over Supreme Court Case | TPMMuckraker
- …TPM asked [Citizens United President David] Bossie if he thought that the influx of large sums of money was healthy for democracy.
"The Supreme Court said that money is speech," Bossie said. "In this day and age, in order to fully participate and have your First Amendment rights, you have to be able to spend money."
[If humans and corporations alike possess an equal right to free speech, and if money is speech and hence its flow into the election process cannot be regulated, then it is absolutely imperative that all money be redistributed so that everyone is equally wealthy. Therefore, Bossie is a secret communist. QED. -L]
…Bossie revealed that Citizens United has a new audience in mind for the coming year: children. Citizens United has their first children's film on tap for 2011 — an animated piece on the Constitution and American history "as it should be taught," Bossie said.
[Cripes. -L]
- Dems Torn Over Schumer Plan To Raise Taxes On Millionaires Only | TPMDC
- …Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) …proposes to create a new tax bracket above the $1 million income threshold, and let Republicans decide whether to fight to the death to give those people a tax cut…
"[T]his figure has no economic justification whatsoever," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell…
…Democratic leaders… and Obama himself oppose the plan… "the concerns expressed were about the cost [to the deficit] and the risk of redefining the middle class as those making over one million."
(Estimates suggest that [the plan] could cost as much as $400 billion over 10 years.)
…a number of progressive members don't want to start negotiations by giving up what they really want…
Sensing that that $250,000 goal is already out of reach, supporters of Schumer's proposal worry that if Democrats don't coalesce around something soon, they'll end up agreeing to extend all the Bush tax cuts until 2012.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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