Obama’s Open Mic

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At Jason330's request... Obama's Bring It moment. Perhaps not realizing his mic was on, Obama's private remarks were caught by CBS correspondent Mark Knoller, who was able to listen to…

Democrats, please do more of this.

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What was supposed to be a routine vote in the House—to knock down an amendment authored by [batshit insane confederate] conservative Republicans—turned into pandemonium on the House floor Friday, as Democrats tried to jam the plan through, and hang it around the GOP’s necks.

Happy Tax Day, Part 2

This is an awesome infographic depicting just how miserly the Corporate contribution to tax revenues really are -- in spite of their campaign to convince us otherwise.

Happy Tax Day

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The U.S. has a low 24% tax-to-GDP ratio in 2009, compared to 34.3% in the UK, 25.6% in Korea, 30.3% in Switzerland and 46.4% in Sweden. The only countries in the OECD lower than us is Mexico (17.5%) and Chile (18.2%).