FRACK THAT: Hick Professes His Undying Love Of Fracking While Salazar Wages...
From our blog to Hick’s ears. Just as we were posting our story on Salazar strangling the fracking business, Governor Hickenlooper was telling the Atlantic Next Generation Energy Summit in Washington...
View ArticleTaxpayers Should Stop Subsidizing Walmart
News Image: Walmart is the biggest retailer in the world. It boasts of having 1.2 million Americans on their payroll. Its reported annual profits are around $13 billion. So it’s safe to say since it is...
View ArticleAustin City Council Passes Landmark Wage Requirements for Development Incentives
News Image: Last week, the Austin City Council voted 6-1 to require that construction workers be paid the prevailing wage by companies who seek economic development incentives from the city. Austin is...
View ArticleTax Exemption for Churches Ruled Unconstitutional in Federal Court
News Image: Last week, the Freedom From Religion Foundation won a decision in the United States District Court in Wisconsin in their case that challenged a little-known law established specifically to...
View ArticleTX Drunk-Driving Teen Who Killed 4 People Highlights America's 'Affluenza'...
News Image: Two weeks ago, Ethan Couch, a TX teen, killed four Texans. He got behind the wheel of his car with three times the legal limit of alcohol in his blood, mowed down several pedestrians, and...
View ArticleREPORT: Of Discouraging $110B in Corporate Welfare, $88M Goes to Koch Industries
News Image: A new report provides detail on our ‘corporate welfare state’ and the way large corporations benefit from programs being sold to the public as beneficial to American citizens. In total,...
View ArticleRed Herring Alert: Subsidies in Place Before Obamacare, But Now Poor People...
News Image: People love to complain that Obamacare is a free handout. But subsidies (i.e. "free stuff") were in place for health care before we ever had the law. Only difference? Now poorer people get...
View ArticleObama Don't Care: Court Potentially Derails Health Care Subsidies for Low-...
News Image: A federal appeals court has delivered a serious setback to President Barack Obama's health care law, potentially derailing billions of dollars in subsidies for many low- and middle-income...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Lobby Spent $213M Last Year in US and EU, Then Received $1.9T in...
News Image: Fossil fuel industries spent an estimated $213 million lobbying U.S. and European Union decision makers last year, according to a new report published by Oxfam International. In the U.S....
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