The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been operating for seven years. During that time, it has recovered 12 billion dollars for nearly 30 million Americans.
Month: November 2017
Payroll Taxes Should be Cut
The payroll tax is withheld from every worker’s paycheck to fund Social Security and Medicare Part A (which covers hospitalizations).
Republican Tax Bills Will Add Trillions to the Debt
The verdict for this episode is: Republicans don’t care about the debt.
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Republican Tax Bills Could cost Medicare Billions
If Republicans pass either of their tax bills, Medicare and a host of other federal programs will face automatic spending cuts. Medicare would be facing a cut of 28 billion dollars in 2018.
Taxes and the Penalty for not Having Health Insurance
As a part of its tax bill, the Senate is proposing to repeal the tax penalty currently paid by people without health insurance. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), repealing the penalty will save 338 billion dollars over 10 years.
Senate’s Tax Bill Lies About Debt
The latest changes to the Senate’s tax bill will dramatically increase the debt. The reason is very simple: all of the benefits promised taxpayers expire at the end of 2025.
GOP Senators Should Promise to Expel Moore
The response of nearly every Republican senator to Roy Moore’s pedophilia and sexual assault of a minor has included the words “if true.” Anyone who read the account of the victims and the dozens of witnesses who report being told of the incidents around the time they occurred would not be engaging in the kind of victim shaming that the GOP is currently encouraging and supporting.
Expelling a Senator
Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution gives each branch of Congress the right to expel members.
Has the Last Year Affected your View of Human Nature?
The last year has been more difficult for me than I typically am willing to acknowledge. Even though I know it shouldn’t watching our country regress is affecting my view of people.
Access Journalism
Watching some coverage of the disgraceful Roy Moore situation, I was bothered by the lack of difficult questioning of GOP senators. Then it hit me: journalists are generally unwilling to ask the powerful difficult questions and fail to challenge lies because their jobs depend on access.