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Eliminate some tax laws, not IRS funding, to avoid shutdowns

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The Parties want the Constitution to Balance our Budget

Released July 1, 2023 Both parties provoked Federal debt crises for decades, yet they willfully deny the possibility of the US defaulting on future loan...

The Debt Ceiling Settlement Dismantled Republican Demands

The leadership of both the Democrat progressive wing and the Republican reactionary wing voted against passing the legislation to allow the debt ceiling to...

Yellen’s June 1 Deadline May Not be Real

There is a Strategy for Not Defaulting on Federal Loans Unfortunately, the media and both parties have tended to conflate a shutdown with defaulting. That...

Our Cultural Assumptions stop us from achieving National Health Care Coverage

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Stop Playing Politics – Provide Americans Universal Health Care – Part 1

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A Bloated Military Budget enables waste, corruption, and world-wide intervention

Please become a Patreon patron so that Citizenship Politics can reach more people While the Republicans and Democrats do a slow tangle to lift the debt ceiling to avoid...

A Debt Ceiling Holds Our Economy Hostage

If Congress doesn’t raise the ceiling, one of the political parties threatens to bring our economy to a halt. That is not a sensible...

What is to be done about America’s growing disparity in wealth?

Over the past year, new research has shown how a phenomenal accumulation of wealth has become concentrated among just 1 percent of Americans over...

Author of ‘After Cooling’ discusses Freon’s legacy and the societal cost of air conditioning

Originally published in the Seattle Times on 7/27/21 In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of...

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