Barbara Boxer says 400 richest taxpayers saw incomes grow by 400%, tax rates fall by 40%
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
"[The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. … They were somewhere in the 7 percent range…
Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.
Says that in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements "and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases…
More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
"[Eighty-five percent] of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere -- not spent in the county in which it is collected."
"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.
One Wisconsin school district "is so worried about losing state funding that it has stopped giving milk to elementary school kids during snack time."
"An amazing 5,400 jobs were lost in the first 12 months of the (smoking) ban’s implementation in Ohio’s hospitality industry alone."
Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we…