Tags: taxes
Of Taxes, Tea, and Timidity: What Obama Should Tell the Protest’s Right-Wing Organizers

Peter Laarman.

Obama might mention the super rich, for example.

By the Way: A Radically Conservative “Faith-Based Initiative”

Randall Balmer.

Obama’s Bush-era strategy of using taxpayer money for faith-based social services not only risks infusing politics into religion, but also denies religious groups their traditional responsibility for caring for those in need—with their own funds.

Allowable Discrimination?

Jonathan L. Walton.

Obama seems to be backpedaling on the issue of “allowable discrimination.” Appropriating tax dollars to bigoted faith groups is not the change we were looking for.

Daschle Is Gone—But the Stench of Insider Corruption Lingers

Peter Laarman.

While it's good that Obama won't have this rotten apple in his administration it does nothing about the tree.