Reaching the Boiling Point

President Barack Obama recently announced plans to modernize our crumbling roads, rails, and airports while providing jobs for the construction industry. While we certainly need to fix our nation’s transportation infrastructure, another crucial set of systems in...

I’m a Genetic Lottery Winner–Tax Me!

I am one of those lucky Americans who won the genetic lottery. That is, I was born rich. And believe it or not, my family’s business success happened because of–not in spite of–our country’s progressive tax system. My great-grandfather, William...

Hope Dims for Electricity Reform

Power makers Rarely care, If their work Pollutes our air. Everyone knows by now that coal is evil and we should stop generating electricity with it. We know about oil, too. We wisely don’t want to drill for it in our own precious soil or waters because of...

Raise My Taxes, Please

President Obama has made it clear that he wants to erase the Bush-era tax cuts for the highest earners in the country, even as he preserves the tax cuts for middle- and working-class Americans. There are plenty of Republicans and even some Democrats who are ready to...