Fix the Debt

Spending Not Lending: How Government Can End the Student Debt Crisis Today

Instead of loaning students money, the federal government could just pay for the tuition without causing any significant economic problems. There is no fiscal reason why the student debt crisis should exist.

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CEOs Against Grandmas: How an Unpatriotic Corporate Elite Are Pillaging Retirees

The loudest calls for Social Security cuts are coming from CEOs who will never have to worry about their own retirement security — yet are part of austerity armies determined to make older people pay.

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60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda

Journalist Lesley Stahl's segment about the adoption of military counterinsurgency techniques by U.S. police forces failed to mention that Stahl sits on the board of the Peterson Foundation, which heavily favors U.S. police militarization.

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10 Corporate Tax Dodgers and Their Tax Loopholes

A new report looks at 10 U.S. corporations that used an array of tax loopholes and corporate subsidies to slash their tax bills.

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Exposing LIFT: The New Corporate Tax-Cut Scam

First it was Fix the Debt, with tax-dodging corporations “leading the charge for massive new corporate tax cuts paid for with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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Public Goals vs. Private Interests in Campaign to Fix the Debt

Close to half of the members of Fix the Debt’s board and steering committee have ties to companies that have engaged in lobbying on taxes and spending.

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The Pirates Behind the Campaign To Fix the Debt

The real reason we should stop talking about The Deficit is that the people insisting it will eat us and our posterity on toast are lying swine who would sell your white-haired granny to the Somali pirates for another three points on the Dow.

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