Reflections on ‘Deep Poverty’
The Constitution’s Framers set as one of the new government’s priorities providing for the “general Welfare,” but that progressive mandate...
Category: Richest One Percent
Right Wing Koch Brothers Go to War Against Solar Energy
The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across...
Unions Celebrate as the Koch Brother’s Pawn Scott Walker Exits Presidential Race
Unions are celebrating the rapid demise of union busting national disgrace, Scott Walker. Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated...
Tax Havens and the New U.S. Aristocracy
To Gabriel Zucman, protégé of rock star French economist Thomas Piketty, the United States is starting to look a lot...
The Koch Brothers Believe that Spending a Billion Dollars Will Buy Them a Lot of Politicians
Republicans understand the fundamentals of electoral politics in a way that should absolutely terrify the Democratic Party. It goes like...
Jeb Bush Campaigns on Giving More Tax Cuts to the Rich
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush outlined a tax plan on Wednesday that broadly resembles the tax platform presented in 2000...
Sanders: Wall Street Has Rigged the Economy for the 1%
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders gathered a panel of economists in Washington DC to discuss the Greek debt fiasco. As...
Greed-head Charles Koch Objects to Being Called Out by President Obama
It would be a stretch to find a person over the age of seven that has never heard, or cannot...
Paul Krugman: GOP candidates promise government by the One Percent, for the One Percent
In his Monday column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman argued that desire by almost the entire Republican field of...
Jeb Bush Super PAC Donors Are Also Out To Buy Washington
A number of donors giving eye-popping sums to a super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign are...
Robert Reich: The Revolt Against the Ruling Class
“He can’t possibly win the nomination,” is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or...
Journalists Only Allowed At Exclusive Koch Brothers Gathering If They Agree Not To Name Conservative Donors
Several news organizations gained rare access Saturday into a private gathering of influential Republican donors hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber...
Ted Cruz Auditions to be the Koch’s Hustler on Capitol Hill
Need to be a hero, but don’t have any really scary enemies? Invent an enemy – in this case the...
Bush, Cruz, Rubio and Walker Court Their Benefactors, the Koch Billionaires
Five of the Republican candidates for president will be heading to a luxury hotel in Southern California from August 1st...
The ALEC Scheme to Privatize Every City In America
The idea of absolute control means exerting one’s will over every aspect of an organization from the very top down...
Right Wing Billionaires Believe They are Over-Taxed
As we celebrate our collective history this Fourth of July, we should remember that we live in a country where...
CEO Gravy Train: Top Execs Rake It In At 300 Times The Rate Of Their Workers
The chief executive officers of America’s largest firms earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at...
More Evidence That Trickle Down Is Disastrous For Americans And The Economy
For most human beings, even idiots in America, there are just some things that are glaringly self-evident such as every...
Neil Young Takes Back His Song From Billionaire Donald Trump
Bernie Sanders took down Donald Trump and took back Rockin’ In The Free World by using the song with Neil...
Scott Walker Intends to Rob Taxpayers to Enrich His Billionaire Contributors
It is no great secret that Republicans can never find a penny for education, infrastructure improvements, social services, or safety...
John McCain Says Cheap Goods Are More Important Than Protecting American Workers
In an June 12th interview with Chris Merrill on the Phoenix based KFYI talk radio station, Arizona Senator John McCain...
The Unsavory Billionaire Pact: Sheldon Adelson And The Koch Brothers Team Up To Buy Republican Politicians
In late April, some 700 conservative luminaries, including presidential contenders, donors, fundraisers and former President George W. Bush, gathered at...
Chris Christie, “Supersize me!”: Christie and pals spend $300,000, including $82,000 at sporting events
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spent about $300,000 of his state allowance for food and alcohol over his first five...
Trickle-down economics hollowed out the middle class. It’s time to stop listening to the architects of inequality
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
Republican Nightmare: Bernie Sanders Exposes GOP Social Security Killing Dreams
Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican...
The party of the rich is now doing everything in its power to make sure those without money live in misery
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Kansas Republicans Finally Admit That Their Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Have Failed
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive...
Report: Rising inequality hurts economic growth
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
This Billionaire Tried To Get University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several...
The IRS Is Investigating The Koch Brothers’ Illegal Tax-Deductions Denying Climate Change
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Robert Reich: The wealthy have broken society by siphoning all its money to themselves
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
The Koch Brothers Try To Fool The American People With A Deceitful PR Campaign
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
The Koch Brothers Have Picked Scott Walker To Be Their 2016 Presidential Puppet
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
GOP Controlled House Votes To Give Richest 0.2 Percent Of Americans a Tax Cut
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
The one percent are parasites: Debunking the lies about free enterprise and trickle-down
‘When did you last get a job from a poor person?’ So goes my favorite Tea Party slogan. The Americans...
John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the One Percent
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Rich Declare War on America’s Poor
Republicans have accused President Obama of waging class warfare for using his State of the Union to push for an...
Study: Wealthiest 1% To Own Half Of The World’s Wealth By 2016
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
Robert Reich: When we give up on democracy, the 1 percent ‘run everything and they get everything’
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
Congress Spreads Joy to the 1 Percent
Towards the end of 2014, Americans averted yet another government shutdown. Congress passed, and Obama signed, a 1.1 trillion dollar...
