Taxing for Fairness or Class Warfare?
Since President Reagan began an era of tax-cutting in the 1980s, lower-class incomes have stagnated and middle-class incomes have increased only slightly, but the incomes of the richest Americans have skyrocketed. If the country is going to recover from today's economic crisis, Obama argues, that is going to have to change.... read more »

Economist Robert Johnson says progressive activists are going to have to fight more aggressively against the forces on Capitol Hill and the White House who are working on behalf of the financial services industry to block financial reform, , given the kinds of deals now being cut by the Obama White House and some Democrats in Congress.
