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Branstad, Reynolds, Hogg And Jobs
The king is in China, but little will change Remember the bogus numbers the Branstad administration would put out monthly on job creation? Branstad had set a goal of 200.000 jobs in 5 years which was a...
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Branstad Leaves Reynolds Holding The Bag
The king is in China, but little will change In what had to be one of the great escapes in recent political history in this state, Terry Branstad royally screwed things up and then left for the...
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Question
“Question” by the Moody Blues” One of the pieces that seems to be missing in the stories I have been able to find concerning Iowa’s continuing starvation of our education system is how this fits in...
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Progress Iowa Corn Feed In Two Weeks!
Let’s show Republicans that we will be a force next year! {editorial comment} 5 minutes Governor Reynolds and her administration aren’t doing Iowans any favors. From her budget crisis caused by...
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Preparing For The Wrong Enemy
The current president sent out the first volley Wednesday in what will be the upcoming budget discussions. As former Vice-President Joe Biden once said “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your...
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RELEASE: REYNOLDS BUDGET CRISIS FORCES IOWA TO BORROW MILLIONS
The king is in China, but little has changed www.ReynoldsBudgetCrisis.com For Immediate Release: September 20, 2017 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0133 REYNOLDS BUDGET CRISIS FORCES IOWA TO BORROW...
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From Bruce Bartlett: Tax Cuts Don’t Work
One Of The Designers Of The Gospel Of Tax Cuts Says: It Is Hogwash (25 minutes total for both videos) At the national level, we are about to head into a major debate on the budget. Trump and the...
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Party Of Death?
Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare: “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre...
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The Reynolds Budget Crisis Isn’t Going Away
picture credit: Iowa Starting Line From the Iowa Democratic Party Five years ago, our state had a budget surplus of nearly $1 billion dollars, but due to massive special interest tax giveaways by the...
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Ernst And Grassley Vote To Cut Medicare And Medicaid
As part of the budget bill passed late Thursday night by the senate Medicare will be cut by a massive $500 billion over the next ten years and Medicaid will be cut by an even more massive $1 Trillion...
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Get Thee To A Legislative Forum!
Thanks to the Iowa Federation of Labor for this alphabetical listing of forums around the state this weekend and next week. See the next post coming up at 6AM for a list of the current agenda. Des...
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Is Iowa Owned By The Koch Brothers?
AFP’s Drew Klein is the only witness to Branstad signing the 2017 union busting bill. Out of the blue republicans in the Iowa senate once again struck a blow against democracy by rushing a budget bill...
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Iowa Policy Project Analyzes Senate Budget Bill
As I have said so many times before, when it comes to thorough analysis on things fiscal in Iowa, no one comes close to the Iowa Policy Project and its partner Iowa Fiscal Partnership. So when the...
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Backfill Cut Is BS
Editor’s note: This ‘on the money’ rant from a friend landed in my mailbox on Friday morning. It is quite self explanatory You can email your legislator and urge them to vote NO on SF 2081- backfill...
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Sunday Funnies And A Couple Of Comments
John Fugelsang has an interesting view on the next election. He would like to see Trump win if only to face the consequences of his reckless economic policies. Much like George W’s policies, Trump...
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Where Did The Money Come From?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post giving my understanding of how the Republican Party (aka now the Trumpublicans) had worked for 40 years to drive the country so deeply in debt that the government...
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Pennsylvania legislator lets loose with a very deserved rant concerning the fact that Republicans in the legislators were positive for corona virus while meeting with Democrats who were never told...
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Analysis Of Iowa Tax Proposals From Common Good Iowa
caption with article on commongoodiowa.org Many of you may remember that the old think tank of iowpolicyproject.org updated itself into commongoodiowa.org. As before, they are the gold standard in Iowa...
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This Week’s The High Five
As noted before, The High Five is a daily email from Progress Iowa that keeps the public abreast of what is going on in the Iowa Legislature. In this time of Iowa’s Republican domination , it is smart...
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Iowa Has A Choice For Governor
Iowa has a choice this fall. DeJear for Governor In a rather surprising editorial in the Des Moines Register last week John and Terri Hale wrote about encounters with former Iowans at various places...
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