Issues and Elections: The Economy

By Laura Knoy on Monday, September 8, 2008.

Once a week until Election Day, we’ll focus on one subject sure to play a role in this year’s campaigns. First up: what voters say is their number one concern: the economy. We’ll look at what the candidates are saying on topics from taxes and trade to housing and jobs.

Guests

  • Dean Spiliotes, New Hampshire political scientist and author of NHpoliticalcapital.com
  • Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor and Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire

We'll also hear from

  • Andy Smith, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire and Director of the UNH Survey Center
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corporate or citizen economy??
Nathan Way - Tue, 09/09/2008 - 08:14

A recent report from the Government Accountability Office found that 2/3s of corporations operating in the US did NOT pay taxes annually from 1998 to 2005, this includes 28% of the "large" corporations.

The measures of our economy are focused on Wallstreet and these corporate cheats, NOT as RFK said in 1968, "that which makes life worhtwhile".

Rather than which candidate has a better plan for the "economy", can either really stand up for the average citizen? Will they take power away from the corporations which finance their party?