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Sen Sanders LTE: Getting the Right U.S. Postal Service for the 21st Century (Wall Street Journal)
May 9, 2012
By Sen. Bernie Sanders In response to your editorial (“The Senate’s Pony Express,” May 2) on the U.S. Postal Service: In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s and the collapse of the American middle class, we must do everything we can to prevent the elimination of 220,000 decent-paying jobs at the [...]
OpEd: Plutocracy in America: A change to our election system (Brattleboro Reformer)
May 4, 2012
By Lachlan Francis At this moment in American history, corporate influence and the power of money are at an all time high. The power of the wealthy and the corporations they control has increased greatly since the 2010 ruling of the Citizens United Supreme Court case. This decision meant that corporations would be treated as [...]
Sen. Sanders Editorial: United Against the War on Women (Green Mountain Daily)
April 30, 2012
By Sen. Bernie Sanders The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years. When our country was formed, women were not [...]
Editorial: Handle with care (Times Argus)
April 27, 2012
The postal reform bill passed by the Senate this week averts the decimation of the Postal Service that had been proposed as a way to save it. Sen. Bernie Sanders took an active role in the Postal Service issue, and in Vermont the benefits will be real. The mail processing center in White River Junction [...]
Sen. Sanders Editorial: Stop the nuclear-industry welfare program (Grist)
April 26, 2012
By Sen. Bernie Sanders & Ryan Alexander With this nation facing a $15 trillion national debt, there is no shortage of opinions about how to move toward deficit reduction in the federal budget. One topic you will not hear discussed very often on Capitol Hill is the idea of ending one of the oldest American [...]
OpEd: Toward a Postal Solution (Bangor Daily News)
April 19, 2012
A bipartisan compromise bill is off to a good start to preserve mostly overnight mail service in Maine and stave off the planned closing of about 100 of the mail processing plants that had been slated for shuttering. After impassioned pleas by Maine’s Sens. Susan Collins, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, [...]
OpEd: The Senate Can and Should Save the Postal Service (The Nation)
April 17, 2012
By John Nichols The United States Postal Service is not broke. It does not need to be downsized. Post offices do not need to be closed. Sorting centers do not need to be shuttered. Saturday service does not need to be scrapped. And hundreds of thousands of jobs in rural regions and urban neighborhoods do [...]
What Allen West Does Not Know About Communists and Congress (The Nation)
April 13, 2012
By John Nichols Florida Congressman Allen West was wrong when he suggested that there were dozens of communists in the current Congress. Misled by crank websites, the out-there Republican from Florida said Tuesday, “I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party… They actually don’t [...]
Editorial: Commies in Congress? (Brattleboro Reformer)
In just one more example of the GOP rhetoric that has been pushing its base across the line between reason and rage, a Florida representative told attendees at a “town hall meeting” that 81 Democrats are members of the Communist Party. “I believe there is about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that [...]
Op Ed: Read My Lips: Fairer Taxes (American Prospect)
April 12, 2012
By David Callahan The “Buffett Rule” proposed by President Obama and now being considered by the Senate would be an important symbolic step toward a fairer tax system. By instituting a minimum tax on very high earners, it would advance the principle of progressive taxation and reform the tax code in an overdue way. By [...]
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