I can't afford the time to turn html into whatever it is DKos uses, so just a link this time:
Campaign 2010: Bullet Points, the Bartcop Entertainment page from 10/11/10. My essay (w/links) is on top. Other good stuff as well.
This is the sixth in a series. Go to Baron Dave's Page for listing.
Additional links below the fold.
It’s Official: More Private Sector Jobs Created In 2010 Than During Entire Bush Years
The Teacoma Party
"Saying you're a fiscal hawk doesn't necessarily make it true"
Alexi Giannoulias demolishes Mark Kirk's lies about being a "fiscal hawk" during a debate on Meet the Press.
And let me repeat a link in the essay, with a quote:
Campaign 2010--THE WINNING SPEECH FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA from Norman Spinrad At Large 10/10/10, which begins:
As Jim Morrison put it, “The people know what the people understand,” so understand what I intend to do after this Congressional election, whether the Democrats win, lose, or draw.
As soon as it can be written into legislation, and not by congressional committees beholden to lobbyists and special interests, I will personally propose to the incoming Congress the following program to put people back to work and revive the American economy and the American Dream without increasing the Federal budget deficit at all, indeed perhaps even reducing it.
1) A revision of the income tax rules to lower income tax on the middle class and the poor and pay for it by raising the rates for anyone earning more than a million dollars a year in a progressive manner so that the biggest increase will fall upon the upper three percent of the taxpayers.
The estimate is that renewing the Bush tax cut giveaway to the super rich will cost about $800 billion dollars over ten years. By not doing so, and by increasing taxes on the super rich, it will be possible to pump at least half a trillion dollars into the real economy with the stroke of my pen on the legislation without increasing the Federal budget deficit.
What do taxpayers earning a million dollars a year do with their excess money once they’ve bought their second yacht and their third vacation home?