Executive privilege is a critical protection for the executive branch in our separation of powers scheme.
Congressional overreach in the form of abusing the oversight process and using the legal process for political purposes ...
However, invoking privilege preventing access to documents should be done sparingly and err on the side of transparency.
But it was not created to be paying $40,000 a year to somebody who made 130 every year of his life.
The issue isn't how you treat the poor. The issue is do we want to raise taxes on middle and higher-income people in ord...
The idea is that they--if you reduce their future benefits, they will respond by working and saving more.
Not necessarily less in dollar terms, but less than they are currently promised.
Generationally, this is shifting more of the costs to future generations.
Does it make sense for the wealthiest among us to have an increase in benefits after they have had their entire lives to...
I favor the--Terri Sewell's approach, which is a regional minimum wage.
We should not tax the very people who need their money the most, my generation, to transfer that to the wealthy.