Right-Winger David Brooks Thinks Oligarchs Should Be Running The Country
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
Category: Richest One Percent
Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
NPR: The ‘Hidden History’ Of The Koch Brothers
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Paul Krugman: Privilege, Pathology and Power
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
The One Percent Has Devised A Tax System That Saves Them Billions
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
Bernie Sanders Explains the Divide and Conquer Strategy of the ‘Ruling Class’
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Bill Moyers: The One Percent Must Not Be Allowed To Win
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
Paul Krugman: The One Percent Attempts to Rewrite History of Financial Crisis
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
Investigation Reveals That A Few Wealthy Families Are Attempting To Buy American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
8 Ways the One Percent Show Their Warped Values and Desire to Destroy the Public’s Safety Net
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
Republican Establishment Frets As ObamaCare’s Popularity Increases In Red States
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
CBS Analyst Frank Luntz Received $1.5 Million From The Koch Brothers to Spew Right-Wing Koch Propaganda
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
Republicans Big Dream: A 1920s Style Government Where the Rich Make All the Rules
Many Americans are unaware of the many programs and policies put in place by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his New...
Robert Reich: The Big Struggle Is the Financial Elite vs. Everyone Else
The standard explanation for why average working people in advanced nations such as Britain and the United States have failed...
Billion Dollar Baby Donald Trump Says Wages Are Too High
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan Treats the Top 1% to an Average Tax Cut of Nearly $180,000
A Citizens for Tax Justice analysis of Jeb Bush’s tax plan reveals that it would cut taxes by $7.1 trillion[i]...
How Marco Rubio became the plutocrats’ favorite candidate
The Sunday shows yesterday featured pretty much nothing but Republicans rehashing their debate and celebrating the ascension of Paul Ryan...
Vile Koch Brothers Spend Millions To Eliminate Solar Power in Sunny Florida
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
Kochs Have Their Tentacles Firmly In Wisconsin Through Their Puppet Scott Walker
Starting today, three bills are being rammed through the Wisconsin legislature that will put the final nails in the coffin...
Duke Energy: Scheming with the Billionaire Koch Brothers to Kill Solar Power
“Duke Energy is front and center in a new report connecting the company to a national network of utility interest...
Just 158 families have provided half of the money to try to capture the White House
They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women,...
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...
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...
