Archive for December 2010
Victory – Medicare Safe for Now
We did it! The Deficit Commission did not garner the 14 votes needed to send their proposal to Congress to cut Social Security and Medicare. With your help, on November 30th, the National Call In Day to protect Social Security and Medicare, we shut down the Capitol switchboard twice. The same day, single-payer activists delivered…
Read MoreMajority Of Deficit Commission Endorses Plan; Not Enough To Make It Automatic
From NPR – As expected, a majority of the bipartisan commission charged with crafting a plan to slash the nation’s soaring budget deficits and national debt, has endorsed a blueprint for how to tackle those daunting problems. But, also as expected, the plan did not get the super-super-majority 14 (out of 18) votes necessary to…
Read MoreDeficit Commission Slashes Taxes For Wealthy, Corporations, While Raising Retirement Age And Cutting Spending
By Ryan Grim for Huffington Post – WASHINGTON — The president’s deficit commission report, scheduled for a vote by the full panel on Friday, proposes to slash tax rates for corporations and for high earners. The top tax rate is currently 35 percent and is scheduled to rise to 39.6 percent in 2011. The commission…
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