The same Republicans who voted no on child tax credits and no for legislation to make health care and prescriptions more affordable because they said it’d explode the deficit now have no problem supporting a budget bill that will add $3.1 trillion to the US deficit to subsidize tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. Meanwhile, nearly 1 in 6 Americans can’t afford to pay their bills on time, and about 30% say they are worse off now than in 2024. Read More

How big and beautiful is this bill? It’s big. It includes a $5 trillion increase in the national debt, which makes even fiscally conservative Republicans twitch. Read More

Can we stop complaining that undocumented workers live off government programs at taxpayers’ expense? Because they don’t. Read More

Despite self-reported assets of over $6 billion as of March 2020, Horizon wants to restructure, allowing them to spin off assets into for profit entities under their existing nonprofit corporate umbrella. Horizon argues this is necessary to remain competitive, that the current structure hurts their ability to make money. Over the last 3 years though, they paid $28 million in bonuses to their CEO and other executives. If Horizon isn’t doing well, how can they afford to reward executives at this level? Read More

While some might see this merely as a bid to gain more federal funding, the decision goes beyond cost-benefit analysis. It is an expression of a bipartisan consensus that detention and deportation of immigrants promote national security. Read More

Such questions reveal the motivations of the Freeholders for what they are: a desire to continue receiving blood money, filling the county coffers with millions, while innocent asylum seekers rot away. Read More

The Commissioners should stop pretending that immigrant detention is helping the immigrants. It’s not. The county should also stop collaborating with Trump and ICE. Crossing a border in hope for a better life should not be illegal. No one is illegal on stolen land. Read More

Economists find, time and time again, that the best way out of an economic downturn are the same policies that are always good governance: investing in communities. Read More

Thanks to Trump’s tax cuts for the richest Americans, all of us have seen the value of our homes lowered while our taxes go to carrying red states. Read More