Trump Back At Mar-A-Lago, Raising Taxpayer Golf Tab To $151.5 Million
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul behind Fox News, received the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, even as hosts on his network...
GOP Sen. David Perdue has truly made a name for himself as the Senate’s ultimate pandemic profiteer. In yet another display...
As President Donald Trump tries to delegitimize the results of a presidential contest in which he “got his ass kicked” by making unsubstantiated claims of...
After decades of public denial, ExxonMobil now acknowledges that “the risk of climate change is real” and says it is “committed to...
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court are one part comedy,...
Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) never wastes an opportunity to roast a CEO. On Wednesday, three pharmaceutical executives, including former Celgene...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 30, 2020
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 28, 2020
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Instead of adhering to congressional intent by building up the nation’s inadequate supply of N95 masks and other equipment to combat the...
Southerly has reported that public records show a Louisiana lawmaker is getting paid to push a proposed 280-mile Delta Express pipeline through Black...
Analysis released Thursday of the world’s top 10 biggest plastic polluters in 15 countries reveals how major corporations hide behind...
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
While President Trump faces bruising poll numbers amid the coronavirus pandemic and financial crisis, his family business continues making money off his...
Consumer and workers’ rights advocates are warning that new details of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plan to shield businesses...
A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions of dollars in funding from major US corporations such as CitiGroup and...
An inspector general report published Friday found that Assistant Interior Secretary Douglas Domenech at the U.S. Department of the Interior used...
CEOs / Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published May 24, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
The former pharmaceutical executive named by President Donald Trump to lead a federal coronavirus vaccine development project owns more than $10 million...
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
On March 6, President Donald Trump issued out the now-infamous proclamation about coronavirus testing, in order to ease rising fears...
The Lincoln Project, a super PAC run by Republicans who oppose President Donald Trump, contacted Facebook to push the social...
US fossil fuel companies have taken at least $50m in taxpayer money they probably won’t have to pay back, according...
President Donald Trump’s campaign is secretly paying one Trump son’s wife and another one’s girlfriend $180,000 a year each through...
Budget / Corruption / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2020
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they’re on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local...
Republicans are furious that Florida’s broken unemployment system was working exactly as former Gov. Rick Scott intended — and it...
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
The Trump administration has hired Anna Seidman, formerly a longtime lawyer at the trophy hunting advocacy group Safari Club International,...
Budget / Corporations / Corruption / Economy / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published March 22, 2020
The White House on Sunday reportedly refused to back down from its demand that a coronavirus relief package include $500...
Societies gripped by cataclysmic wars, depressions, or pandemics can become acutely sensitive to power and privilege. Weeks before the coronavirus...
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re...
Corporate social responsibility is the second-biggest con of 2019 (Donald Trump remains in first place). Consider Boeing, whose board just...
President Donald Trump has pushed his taxpayer-funded golf tab past $118 million on his 26th visit to Mar-a-Lago, his for-profit...
Trump’s corporate giveaways and failure to improve the lives of ordinary working Americans are becoming clearer by the day. Trump...
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
In the midst of a heated court battle with Manhattan over his tax returns, President Donald Trump announced Thursday night...
A new report from ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations, published Tuesday, found that President Donald Trump’s campaign vow to “drain the swamp”...
According to a new report by Politico, and confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg himself, the Facebook CEO has been secretly meeting...
Trump Towers in Istanbul is a major part of Trump’s business portfolio. “The Turks are also the top patrons of...
“A treasury secretary who can’t count needs to be held accountable.” That was the message progressive advocacy group Americans for...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
Betterment / Corruption / Fighting Back
by onepercenttakers · Published September 17, 2019 · Last modified September 18, 2019
Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday unveiled a wide-ranging plan to combat corruption in U.S. politics with...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.