Class Issues

Latest Presidential Polls 2012: Data Shows the Romney 47 Percent Comment Has Taken Serious Toll

Sep 26, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 26, 2012) Up until now, debate on the political impact of Mitt Romney's "47%" comments has been entirely speculative. That is no longer the case. According to recently released New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac surveys — the first major polls to be conducted right after the emergence of the controversial video — Romney has suffered enormous setbacks in key swing...

Obama vs. Romney: Mitt Romney 47 Percent Gaffe Proves He is Too Conservative to Be President

Sep 23, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 23, 2012) Conventional political wisdom states that, to become president, you must first acquire your party's nomination by pandering to its radical base. After that, you win the general election by moving back to the ideological center. Keep that axiom in mind as you're reading this editorial. Back in February, Mitt Romney earned the derision of political...

Romney 47 Percent Hot Mic Comments: This Proves Just How Wrong He Is For The American Presidency

Sep 18, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (September 18, 2012) Secret video recordings of comments made by Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser are so appalling that it's hard to figure out where to even begin analyzing them. I guess the best way is to look at the three main parts. First there is the Republican presidential nominee's declaration that 47% of the American people will vote for Barack Obama no matter...

Barack Obama Must Ask $2,000 Question

Sep 6, 2012 | Class Issues, Economic Policy, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans

Published: The Morning Call (September 6, 2012), PolicyMic (September 6, 2012) More than a month ago, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center revealed that Mitt Romney's proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by an average of $2,000 a year. Since then, President Obama has put a calculator on his campaign website to help ordinary citizens...

Mitt Romney Selection of Paul Ryan Declaration of War Against Middle Class

Aug 11, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (August 11, 2012) Early this morning, The Huffington Post broke the story that Mitt Romney had selected Paul Ryan to be his vice presidential running mate. In his article, Jon Ward commented that "Ryan is a bold pick who will energize the Republican Party, but putting him on the ticket is fraught with risk and instantly puts Ryan's budget plan front and center in the 2012...

What Voters Should Know About Romney’s Middle-Class Tax Hikes

Aug 3, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (August 3, 2012) According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, Mitt Romney's proposed tax cuts for the affluent will require him to increase taxes on middle-class families by $2,000 a year. Just in case you missed that the first time: If you are a wage-earner for a middle-class family, Romney would raise your taxes by $2,000. In fact, if you are among the 95% of Americans...

Mitt Romney Bain Scandal: Everything You Need To Know

Jul 15, 2012 | Class Issues, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Plutocracy, Scandals

Published PolicyMic (July 15, 2012) For those of you unfamiliar with the emerging scandal involving Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, I have broken down the debacle into five convenient sets of bullet points: Romney's Actions: - In a federal disclosure form filed on August 12, 2011, Mitt Romney wrote that he had retired as CEO of Bain Capital to run the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics on February 11,...

The Failures of Romneynomics

Jun 11, 2012 | Class Issues, Conservativism, Economic Policy, Elections - Presidential (2012), mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: PolicyMic (June 11, 2012) The American people have made it clear that unemployment will be the dominant issue of this election. Polls consistently show voters prioritizing it far above every other policy question, with nothing else – not health care reform, not balancing the budget, not international relations, not gay rights – managing to place even a close second by comparison....

Why Elena Kagan Should Not Recuse Herself from Health Care Law Hearing

Feb 1, 2012 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama

Published: The Morning Call (February 1, 2012) As Obama's health care law reaches the Supreme Court, the clamor from conservatives and their libertarian sympathizers becomes shriller every day. From Dick Morris and Hans von Spakovsky to WorldNetDaily and The Washington Times, the call rings clear: Justice Elena Kagan, they insist, must recuse herself from the case.The argument against Kagan...

On Obama’s Economic (Obamanomics) Policies

Dec 14, 2011 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama

Published: The Morning Call (December 14, 2011) The Labor Department recently reported that 140,000 jobs were created in November, causing unemployment to fall to 8.6 percent, the lowest it has been in 21/2 years. When you add that to the nearly 3 million jobs that grew in the private sector over the past 21 months, you have to wonder whether Obamanomics is starting to work. The answer is no. It...

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