Forgiving student loans is an opportunity for the nation to create policy rooted in a recognition of the importance of investing in one another.
Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal has certainly sparked debates not just about basic questions of fairness, of morality, but also about the economic effectiveness and very meaning of taxation. The debate raises the question of what it means to invest in America. Beto O’Rourke, in the last debate, jumped on the Warren-bashing bandwagon, accusing Warren’s…
The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall Street, corporate democrats, and now even other Democratic candidates running for president. As I have written in PoliticusUsa.com (here and here), the intensity of the energy devoted to this criticism, combined with the lack of…
Remember President Donald Trump’s State of the Union addresses last February and in particular in January 2018 amid a wave of teachers’ strikes? Can you recall the talking points he elaborated on the need to support public education? No? Well, that’s because since taking office he’s uttered barely a word about our at-risk public education…
