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Ending The Tax Scams: The Path To Corporate Tax Reform

Corporate tax havens, a "territorial tax" proposal that would give corporations more legitimate ways to avoid U.S> taxes, and the way current tax laws encourage companies to move jobs and profits out of the country and proposed solutions are among the topics covered in this briefing for progressive bloggers and media hosted by Dave Johnson.
The discussion highlights how various tax schemes have contributed to the hollowing out of the middle class, and the proposals being offered in Congress now to enact progressive tax reform.

Featured in this discussion is Steve Wamhoff from Citizens for Tax Justice and Frank Clemente from Americans for Tax Fairness.

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Rep. Keith Ellison on the Progressive Caucus Back to Work Budget

OurFuture.org interviews Rep. Keith Ellison on the Congressional Progressive Caucus' Back to Work Budget. The budget invests in a bold plan to rebuild our infrastructure, fund school modernization, provide aid to states to rehire teachers and cops, and target jobs corps for the most distressed communities. It would generate nearly 7 million jobs in the first year alone. They would increase deficits in the short term, but pay for the program over the decade. The budget would protect Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and strengthen Obamacare. It would intensify the effort to bring health care costs under control by challenging special interests, not by cutting benefits. Read Robert Borosage's analysis of the differences between the Back to Work budget and the Republican budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan.

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Dave Johnson On Saving The Postal Service

Dave Johnson is interviewed by Matthew Filipowicz.

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Sen. Chris Murphy Discusses His Next Manufacturing Jobs Push

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., participates in a conference call on reviving a "Make It In America" manufacturing strategy with Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America's Future and Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. That agenda includes cracking down on China’s currency manipulation and violations of trade rules, tightening up “Buy America” federal contracting provisions and encouraging federal investments that would boost the manufacturing sector.

» Related: "Sen. Chris Murphy Readies His Next ‘Make It In America’ Jobs Push"

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Economists' Statement News Conference: Jobs, Not Austerity

Three hundred and fifty prominent economists issued a statement warning that “the fragile recovery is threatened by obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties.” The economists from universities and research groups across the U.S. and the world reminded politicians that the U.S. economy in the post-election period is still “marked by mass unemployment, rising poverty, and declining wages.” And they warned that big spending cuts aimed at reducing deficits could throw the economy back into recession.

At a news conference, the co-authors of the statement, Robert Borosage and Roger Hickey, co-directors of the Institute for America’s Future and by Robert Kuttner, founder of The American Prospect, were joined by two of the signers, Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts Economist and co-director of Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Teresa Ghilarducci, Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the The New School.

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Paul Ryan Calls Social Security a "Welfare Transfer System" at "Celebration Of Ayn Rand" Event

Paul Ryan gave the following speech to the Atlas Society in 2005. Details at www.atlassociety.org. Partial transcript available here.

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Robert Greenstein On The "Fiscal Cliff" And Sane Budget Policy

Robert Greenstein, director of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, is interviewed on what is likely to happen when Congress faces the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and steep automatic budget cuts that are slated to happen at the end of the year if there is not a deficit agreement. Will the nation's economy fall off this "fiscal cliff" and what should we be demanding of candidates in the coming months? Greenstein explains his push for a balanced approach to solving the nation's fiscal challenges.

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ACA Supreme Court Rally - Interviews

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Chuck Collins On Why The "Buffett Rule" Is Important

Institute for Policy Studies senior scholar Chuck Collins, a leading voice on the subject of income inequality and economic justice, discusses the "Buffett Rule" and explains the importance of a Senate vote on a bill based on the rule that was scheduled for April 16.

"In a way, the Buffett Rule fight is symbolic. It moves us in the right direction, but it doesn't raise as much revenue as it should. We would be better off if Congress just said income from work, and income from investments, capital gains and wealth, should be taxed at the same rate, whether you have high income or low income," Collins says in the interview.

Nonetheless, he adds, the Buffett Rule is a "totally important fight" that "moves us in the right direction."

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Ilana Berger on "Move Your Money 2.0": Going After The Big Money

The "move your money" movement made a lot of noise a few months ago by encouraging individuals to close their accounts at the big banks at the root of the financial crisis. That movement is now well into what Ilana Berger, the co-director of New Bottom Line, calls "Move Your Money 2.0"—getting large organizations and governments to either hold banks accountable or deposit their dollars elsewhere. She discusses how that is working, and how you can get involved, in this interview.