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A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) – Congress’s nonpartisan research arm – touched a nerve among free-market ideologues, who reacted to the wonky policy brief by accusing CRS of partisanship and calling their analysis into question. But politicians from both parties, as well as these same ideologues, often cite CRS data and […]
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Posted on Author Economic Opportunity Institute
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Fortune criticizes Romney on tax rates
Posted on Author admin
The Jan 12, 2012 edition of Fortune has this to say about Mitt Romney: The last thing Romney is concerned about is income inequality. “I want to make everybody richer,” he says. “I don’t want to make the few rich poorer and make everyone else poorer at the same time.” It’s an argument that Republicans […]