U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Category: Richest One Percent
Oxfam Calls Out Donald Trump for Making Wealth Inequality Worse
The world’s richest 1 percent raked in 82 percent of the wealth created last year, according to a new report...
Let’s Wrench Power Back From the Billionaires: Bernie Sanders
Here is where we are as a planet in 2018: after all of the wars, revolutions and international summits of...
Billionaire Koch Bros Launch $20 Million Propaganda Campaign To Get Americans To Support Tax Cuts For The Rich
The Koch Brothers, through their political action networks, have decided to spend $20 million on a new ad campaign designed...
Trump Told Friends ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ From Tax Bill
President Donald Trump told friends at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club “you all just got a lot richer” after the passage...
Protesters Heckle Paul Ryan And Scream Liar As He Celebrates Cutting Taxes For The Rich
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House...
Whiny Millionaires Beg Trump To Give Them Even More Tax Breaks
In spite of the fact that every analysis performed on the Republican tax cut package shows that the legislation is...
Trump Family To Save $1 Billion Under New Tax Plan, Middle Class Gets Shafted
According to a new analysis of the tax plan that passed the House this week, the entire Trump family will...
The Seven Republican Super-Donors Who Keep Money In Tax Havens
Seven Republican super-donors helped bankroll the conservative push for power in the 2016 election cycle, between them pumping more than...
Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The Trump administration has pulled out of a global deal to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, a move...
Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm: Middle-Class Americans Will Foot The Bill For GOP Tax Scam
Bernie Sanders sounded the alarm about the GOP tax plan on Thursday, saying the massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
Bernie Sanders Warns of ‘International Oligarchy’ After Paradise Papers Leak
Bernie Sanders has warned that the world is rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a tiny number of billionaires,...
The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us That It Is The Rich Who Matter To Republicans
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Trump And His Cabinet Will Make $3.5 Billion From Their Tax Scheme
The tax plan being pushed by Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Washington is nothing more than a “get...
Republicans Are Refusing To Give Healthcare To Kids Until Billionaires Get Tax Cuts
Republicans are refusing to renew the CHIP program that provides health insurance to 9 million children until millionaires and billionaires...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Trump Jr. Cancelled Secret Service Protection So He Could Go Kill A Moose
Rumors swirled when it was announced that Donald Trump, Jr. would be relinquishing his Secret Service protection a few weeks...
Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied.
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
Trump Uses Massive Damage From Hurricanes To Call For Giving Himself A Tax Cut
The tax cuts and tax reform that are being discussed would overwhelmingly benefit Donald Trump. How big of a tax...
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...
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...
