True Spirit of America Party

Just pointing out that today is Flag Day. But this blog looks no different today because we display the Stars and Stripes every day. To al...

Unfortunately, the title of this post is not just the name of a Funkadelic song (and album) from 1972.  It is also the best way to describe...

Our national debt is approaching $16 TRILLION dollars, and our deficit remains well over a trillion, meaning that the debt is still growing ...

In our previous post , we essentially debunked the right-wing talking points about the Laffer Curve.  We showed that, generally speaking, th...

Most people (at least those who took Econ 101) have heard of the Laffer Curve.  This idea is often attributed to economist Arthur Laffer in...

This tax day, April 17, about 230 million American taxpayers will file a federal income tax return if last year's numbers are any indica...

One favorite claim by the wealthiest 1% (and their lackeys) is that higher marginal tax rates at the state/local level will cause rich folks...

The TSAP has recently updated our platform from its 2009 version, as our dynamic party continues to evolve.  Please take a look at it under ...

On January 24, 2012, the President gave his annual State of the Union Address.  Every year since 2011, the TSAP has been giving our annual S...

President Obama gives his annual State of the Union Address tonight.   In addition to watching it, you should also look at the following lin...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) , along with its companion bill Protect IP Act (PIPA), is currently being debated in Congress.  This bipar...

The latest study on America's growing inequality of wealth and income is really quite sobering indeed: we are worse than the Ivory Coa...

On December 18, 2011, after nearly nine years of occupation, the Iraq War is finally over .  Just in time for the holidays, the last remaini...

The healthcare reform deform bill that was signed into law in 2010 and whose most controversial aspect, the so-called "individual mand...

We have already noted the latest news from the 2010 Census that shows that, across the board, Americans are having fewer children than they...

The TSAP fully supports the Occupy Wall Street Protests .  The richest 1% of the population, who owns 42% of the nation's wealth, has fo...

Lately, President Obama has been calling for increased taxes on the filthy rich to help balance our nation's ridiculously unbalanced bu...

On August 2, Congress approved a deal that raises the debt ceiling enough to cover us through 2012 while appointing a bipartisan commission ...

Take off your rose-colored glasses and sit down.  Ready?  OK, here's the truth, warts and all: You know the American economy is doing ...

The President and Congress still have not agreed on the issue of the debt ceiling.  As we have noted before , failure to raise the ceiling b...