Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuce: Clocking Out
The economy looks like it may really be coming back for consumers and households.
Perfect take on Mitt Romney’s advice to bosses: “When you’re a person of greater value than your workers by dint of a checking account, it would be unreasonable for you not to speak for them.”
More: “It strikes many of us as, well, wrong…especially so today because it comes as another example of the great imbalance of power in the workplace.”
So is it legal for your boss to tell you how to vote? Yes.
The Romney plan: “The poorest Americans would see their tax bills rise by nearly 2 percent of their income. But the richest would get tax cuts of over 6 percent.”
More: “So does it all add up because he says so? No.”
It’s a shocking, and positive, development that Mitt Romney has to pretend he isn’t going to cut taxes for the rich.
Surprise surprise: Romney’s top economic advisor was a lobbyist for JP Morgan.
The Akron Beacon Journal looks at Romney in the second debate: “Trust becomes hard to win amid the fog of his positions.”
A more progressive Senate in 2013?
Finally: Why Bruce Springsteen says he’ll be hitting the campaign trail.
