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...
Donald Trump loves the 1980s. After all, that was when his celebrity rose in New York, when Trump Tower was...
As always with the Trumps, follow the money. Back in 2012, Ivanka Trump tweeted thanks to Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan…...
The money to cover the cost of President Trump’s vacations to his private resort in Florida has to come from...
President Donald Trump spent the weekend with his favorite people: the dues-paying members of his Mar-a-Lago Golf Club, which costs...
Donald Trump talked a big game on the campaign trail about standing up to big corporations and putting the interests...
by onepercenttakers · Published March 17, 2017 · Last modified March 18, 2017
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez ripped President Trump’s first federal budget outline Thursday, saying it favors the wealthy...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published March 14, 2017 · Last modified March 15, 2017
See what you make of this, and it comes in two parts: First, the new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report...
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter...
President Trump’s weekend vacations to his private club in Florida have cost taxpayers almost as much in a month ($11.3...
The Senate narrowly confirmed Scott Pruitt as the new Environmental Protection Agency chief on Friday, despite Democrats’ calls to delay the...
WASHINGTON ― One of the Donald Trump administration’s first orders of business on the economy will scuttle a rule protecting...
Senator Bernie Sanders has more than a few things to be proud of: he led a massive, populist political movement...
It is amazing that in America, the richest nation in mankind’s history, there are laws against cruelty to animals but...
Areas all over the country approved minimum wage hikes during this year’s elections, and corporations are not happy about it....
It appears that there is no end to how far the 1% will go to screw over everyone else in...
Barack Obama’s original cabinet was chockablock with historic firsts. The first African American attorney general. The first Nobel laureate upon...
For years, the little-known New York hedge fund Platinum Partners stood out for double-digit investment returns that rivaled some of...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 21, 2016 · Last modified December 22, 2016
Pope Francis had strong words for world leaders’ priorities, including United States president-elect Donald Trump last week. During a speech...
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
Corruption / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 27, 2016 · Last modified September 28, 2016
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged Monday night about taking advantage of the housing market crash, an architect he once...
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 18, 2016 · Last modified October 3, 2016
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
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...
RACHEL MADDOW (HOST): Before becoming Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway ran a Super PAC she ran one of the...
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 14, 2016 · Last modified August 15, 2016
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
Most Americans comprehend what it means to be cruel, sadistic, and diabolical because they’ve witnessed Republicans exhibit those qualities in...
Editor’s Note: While this isn’t explicitly stated below, Trump has mentioned before an intention to all but wipe out the “Department...
Donald Trump is not one to shy away from lawsuits. Any prominent figure – from politicians to comedians to journalists...
Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative...
lizabeth Warren unloaded on Donald Trump in a speech on Tuesday night, calling him a “money-grubber”, a tool of the...
The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid...
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money...
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,...
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and...
Republicans love telling us that the private industry can run things better than the government, and that’s why they work...
by onepercenttakers · Published March 22, 2016 · Last modified March 23, 2016
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
"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.