Grassroots supporters of Howie Hawkins’ Green Party campaign for Governor of New York are holding an online “money bloom” today, Friday 22 October, with the goal of raising $10,000 for voter outreach.

It’s been nearly 35 years since we’ve had a “tax and spend” political party. During the 1970s, the Democrats gave up fighting the Republicans about the “tax and spend” label, and the Carter Administration tried to escape from that charge by making very serious attempts to balance the budget. During the 1980s, more and more Democrats emphasized their concern for reducing deficits and balancing budgets as a way of distinguishing themselves from the Reagan Administration’s unprecedented peacetime deficits. This didn’t work for them during Reagan’s time, but they finally were able to use the balanced budget old-time religion game to get George Bush to violate his no new taxes pledge, which both contributed to the Bush recession and, as a further consequence, was a big reason why Bill Clinton was elected.

More than 100 candidates have endorsed the Green New Deal, a 10-point program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability. Join them today.

To get America back on the right track, we need an ambitious program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability. It’s time for a Green New Deal.

Some personal tax breaks I’m enjoying this year. Like Where’s Waldo, I might ask, where’s the social benefit of giving me money?

The mal-distribution of wealth and income is a major cause of our economic crisis. It has to be changed. What’s holding us back?