Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Category: Richest One Percent
Bernie Sanders: Thousands Of Americans Will Die Because Of ‘Barbaric’ Trumpcare Plan
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed Senate Republicans’ bill to repeal Obamacare as a “barbaric” plan that means thousands will die...
Obama Blasts Republicans For Stealing People’s Heath Care In Order To Cut Taxes For Rich
In a lengthy post on his Facebook page, former President Obama called for Democrats and Republicans to work together to...
The Trump Family and Its Shadowy Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Organized Crime
The special counsel’s investigation of the White House has come more sharply into focus. Robert Mueller is examining whether President...
Wall Street Salary And Bonuses Show America’s Rich Are Getting Richer As Inequality Deepens
Wednesday’s big news on Wall Street wasn’t that for yet another year its average wage and bonuses put finance employees...
A Sick First Family: Trump Clan Used a So-Called “Charity” to Line Their Own Pockets
Eric Trump, Donald’s second-eldest son, is one of those who runs the Trump Organization. Until the end of last year,...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
Rick Perry’s Early Days As Energy Secretary Have Been A Bonanza For Corporations And The Koch Brothers
Most people who know anything about Rick Perry know he’s a friend to the fossil fuel industry. For 14 years,...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Spent Heavily To Put A Climate Change Denier In Charge Of EPA
A new report shows that the Koch Brothers spent part of a $3.1 million fund to help get Scott Pruitt...
Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
Rupert Murdoch’s Corporate Legacy: Chronic Sexual Harassment and Rampant Lawbreaking
Bill O’Reilly may be gone at Fox News, but Rupert Murdoch’s festering Fox News mess isn’t going away anytime soon....
Donald Trump Resurrects Trickle Down Economics
Donald Trump loves the 1980s. After all, that was when his celebrity rose in New York, when Trump Tower was...
From Turkey to China, The Self-Serving Trumps Continue to Cash in on Presidency
As always with the Trumps, follow the money. Back in 2012, Ivanka Trump tweeted thanks to Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan…...
9,000 Americans Who Rely On Meals On Wheels Will Go Hungry To Pay For Trump’s Lavish Florida Vacations
The money to cover the cost of President Trump’s vacations to his private resort in Florida has to come from...
Lives Of The Richest One Percent: Hobnobbing With The President For A $200,000 Fee
President Donald Trump spent the weekend with his favorite people: the dues-paying members of his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club, which costs...
Trump Just Cost Americans Saving For Their Retirement $3.7 Billion
Donald Trump talked a big game on the campaign trail about standing up to big corporations and putting the interests...
The Trump Budget: Putting America’s Richest 1% First
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
The Paul Ryan Approach: Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Losing Your Health Insurance
See what you make of this, and it comes in two parts: First, the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
Ivanka Trump Is Pushing Congress To Pass A $500 Billion Gift To Rich People With Nannies
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter...
Trump’s Florida Vacations Have Cost Taxpayers Almost As Much In A Month As Obama Spent In A Year
President Trump’s weekend vacations to his private club in Florida have cost taxpayers almost as much in a month ($11.3...
Big Oil Gets Its Man As EPA Chief
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
Trump’s Executive Order Gift to His Wall Street Cronies
WASHINGTON ― One of the Donald Trump administration’s first orders of business on the economy will scuttle a rule protecting...
Progressive Bernie Sanders Feels Honored by How Much the Billionaire Class Hates Him
Senator Bernie Sanders has more than a few things to be proud of: he led a massive, populist political movement...
Savage Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
It is amazing that in America, the richest nation in mankind’s history, there are laws against cruelty to animals but...
Corporate Elite Fights To Repeal Voter-Approved Minimum Wage Hikes
Areas all over the country approved minimum wage hikes during this year’s elections, and corporations are not happy about it....
Corrupt Banks Sell Low-Income Housing Tainted With Lead Paint
It appears that there is no end to how far the 1% will go to screw over everyone else in...
Climate deniers, conspiracists and one-percenters: Trump’s cabinet of characters
Barack Obama’s original cabinet was chockablock with historic firsts. The first African American attorney general. The first Nobel laureate upon...
Platinum Hedge Fund Executives Charged With $1 Billion Fraud
For years, the little-known New York hedge fund Platinum Partners stood out for double-digit investment returns that rivaled some of...
Pope Francis Says Money Dominates Politics
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
Donald Trump would give massive cut tax cuts to the richest one percent, adding trillions to the national debt
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
Trump Brags About Ripping Off Workers, Profiting from the Housing Crisis and Gaming the System
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Republican Leader Paul Ryan’s Tax Plan is a Massive Handout to the Richest One Percent
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
Studies Show Trump’s Economic Plan Would Rig the Tax System Even More in Favor of the Richest One Percent
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
New Koch-Funded Group Aims to Promote the “Positives” of Dirty Fuels
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling US Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEO Charles Drevna gave...
Conspiracy Kooks Breitbart and Donald Trump Funded By Right-Wing Hedge Fund Billionaire Robert Mercer
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Richest One Percent Willing to Swallow Trump’s Lunacy to Get Their Tax Cuts
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
The Ultimate Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Profited from Public Subsidies & Political Favors
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Koch Brothers Are Meddling In Your State Elections
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
Trump’s trickle-down ticket: Donald Trump’s VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
The Billionaire Koch Bros’ Fingerprints Were All Over the GOP Convention
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
Latest Republican Scheme: Convert Federal Public Land to State Land, Where It Can Be Sold To Billionaires
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Right-Wing Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Wants Taxpayers to Finance His New Stadium
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
Paul Krugman: “The modern Republican Party is in essence a machine designed to deliver high after-tax incomes to the 1 percent”
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
The Hidden Billionaires Behind The Donald
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
