GOP Sociopaths Don’t Want Americans To Have Medical Care
It is a good bet that many Americans think they do not personally know a certified sociopath, but they certainly...
Author: onepercenttakers
Rightie Ted Cruz says he’s signing-up for Obamacare
Ted Cruz — one of the Affordable Care Act’s harshest critics — announced Tuesday that he would be signing up...
Climate-sceptic US senator given funds by BP political action committee
One of America’s most powerful and outspoken opponents of climate change regulation received election campaign contributions that can be traced...
5 signs America is devolving into a plutocracy
Have you ever undertaken some task you felt less than qualified for, but knew that someone needed to do? Consider...
Christie’s sweetheart deal with ExxonMobil?
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wants to settle an $8.9 billion environmental lawsuit against ExxonMobil for just $250...
Bernie Sanders Demands War Tax On Millionaires To Pay For GOP Military Spending Increase
Sen. Sanders isn’t just demanding the war tax. He is going to force Republicans to vote on it by proposing...
President Obama Smacks Down Republicans With The Reality Of His Economic Success
President Obama smacked down Republicans today by contrasting his record of economic success with the reality of their trickle down...
Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts
One of the reasons the Koch brothers invested so heavily in the midterm elections was to put a stop to...
Scott Walker To Cut $300 Million From Universities, Spend $500 Million On A Pro Basketball Stadium
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) will unveil a budget Tuesday night that aims to slash hundreds of millions of dollars...
Chris Christie’s New Campaign Strategy? Run On Slashing Social Security and Medicare
Governor Christie, originally touted by the press as the “moderate” candidate in the GOP field, is desperately trying to stay...
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill To Lift The Payroll Tax Cap, Ensuring Full Social Security Funding For Nearly 75 Years
Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a featured speaker at the United Steel Workers 2011 conference in Las Vegas....
Obama Annihilates Scott Walker After Governor Signs Wisconsin Right To Exploit Law
President Obama released a fiery statement that called out Gov. Scott Walker for weakening the middle-class and after he signed...
Evidence Koch Brothers Funding Climate Change Denial
WASHINGTON (AP) — The industrial conglomerate run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch is refusing to provide Democratic...
This is not a democracy: How the one percent rigged the game
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent...
Wisconsin Republicans Pass Right-To-Exploit Bill, Walker Plans To Sign
Following a heated, all-night debate between lawmakers in Madison, the Wisconsin state assembly passed right-to-work legislation on Friday morning, sending...
Koch Brothers’ Tar Sands Connection Revealed
A map released by the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization (IFG) shows that the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers own...
Connected Big Boys Access A Bottomless Pit Of Tax Credits
There’s a bill parked in the House Ways & Means Committee called the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Extension Act...
Democrats Blast Scott Walker For Comparing Labor Unions To ISIS
Gov. Scott Walker insulted millions of Democrats and Republicans who belong to unions today by comparing unions to ISIS during...
Al Franken And Bernie Sanders See Net Neutrality As A Big Victory Over Corporations
In two separate statements, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) praised the passage of the FCC’s new...
The State Where Even Republicans Have a Problem With Busting Unions
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has declared war on workers and their unions—and, by extension, on fair wages and the prospects...
Powerful right wing lobby plots to stop minimum wage hikes
A network of Republican lawmakers and their rightwing corporate funders are battling behind closed doors to block minimum wage increases...
First Batch of Solar-Trained Veterans Get Jobs with Solar Company Vivint
There are a bunch of great things about solar. Socio-economically, one of those things is that people on all sides...
Climate Change Denier’s Research Is Funded By Oil Interests
For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of...
Study: Gap between Richest and Poorest Students Finishing College Increasing
A study recently released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Higher Education shows that not only is the...
‘Obamacare’ is transforming the job market
Last year the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a detailed analysis of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that projected it...
Koch-Republican Governors Robbing Pensions And Slashing Wages
It is probably true that most Americans do not begrudge other Americans reaping the benefits of hard work whether it...
Scott Walker Secretly Meets with the Koch Brothers
Watchdog organizations Common Cause and the Center for Media and Democracy jointly filed a public records request today seeking details...
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner Declares War on Workers
Bruce Rauner’s campaign for governor of Illinois hit a rough spot when it was revealed that he was talking about...
Jeb Bush Regurgitates His Political Family’s “Compassionate Conservative” Line
Taking a page out of his brother George W. Bush’s playbook, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to run as a...
Wyoming Republicans Kill Medicaid Expansion
On Friday, the Republican-controlled Wyoming Senate voted 19-11 to reject Medicaid expansion, which would have extended health care coverage to over...
How the Roberts Supreme Court Caters to the Rich and Powerful
John Roberts is entering the stretch run of his tenth term as chief justice of the United States. In-depth assessments...
Bobby Jindal’s Experiment in Trickle Down Economics Proves Disastrous
The country is full of examples illustrating the failure of Republican economic policies. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin and Sam Brownback’s Kansas have become...
Wisconsin’s Forty Year War On Unions
Forty years ago the owners of Milwaukee’s meat packing plants launched a war on unions. Milwaukee’s working class is still...
GOP Passes Bill That Would Take Health Care Away From 19 Million People
The House has voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 239-186, but House Republicans didn’t just vote to repeal Obamacare....
Even Republicans Love Social Security
Unlike some current Republican politicians, Ronald Reagan knew better than to try to destroy Social Security. A new book makes...
Bill Maher Mocks Republicans Who Pretend To Care About The Middle Class
Bill Maher calls out Republicans who feign concern for the middle-class by giving them a history lesson on where the...
The Koch Organization Will Spend $1 Billion in Effort to Buy the 2016 Elections
Charles and David Koch plan to spend as much as one billion in 2016 in an attempt to capture the...
Republicans Suddenly “Concerned” About Inequality
Instead of their usual diatribe about class warfare, or denying the existence of inequality, Republican leaders are suddenly talking up...
It’s Time to Stop Subsidizing Inequality
Nearly every week there is some major conference on the subject of inequality. They are often led by prominent people,...
Republicans and Wall Street Line Up to Put Taxpayers on the Hook
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Billionaire Who Disowned United States Over Taxes Is Angry That He Can’t Come Back
The U. S. government denied bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver a visa last week, reported Coin Desk. Ver renounced his American...
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Takes From Children And Retirees To Give Tax Cuts To The Wealthy
Despite the state of Kansas facing bankruptcy and a billion dollar deficit due to monumental tax cuts for the rich...
Boehner and McConnell Evasive When Asked About Alternative to Obamacare
House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, and could not come up with...
The Wealthy Get Paid Sick Days. The Poor Don’t.
President Obama has proposed a right to paid sick leave for all workers in this country. Family economic security is...
GOP Majority Leader Cuts Off Keystone XL Debate So GOP Reps Can Meet With The Kochs
Senate Democrats are angry because Mitch McConnell ended debate on the Keystone XL bill so that Republicans could attend a...
Governor Cuomo Calls For Substantial Minimum Wage Hike
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) unveiled several new proposals, including a call to raise the minimum wage to $11.50...
