The Chamber of Commerce Elite Continues Its Assault On The Working Class
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published February 25, 2016 · Last modified February 26, 2016
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
by onepercenttakers · Published February 15, 2016 · Last modified February 18, 2016
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 20, 2016 · Last modified January 24, 2016
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 16, 2015 · Last modified December 19, 2015
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 24, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 17, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 17, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Many Americans are unaware of the many programs and policies put in place by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his New...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 16, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The standard explanation for why average working people in advanced nations such as Britain and the United States have failed...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published November 11, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 7, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
A Citizens for Tax Justice analysis of Jeb Bush’s tax plan reveals that it would cut taxes by $7.1 trillion[i]...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 4, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
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Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published November 4, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Sunday shows yesterday featured pretty much nothing but Republicans rehashing their debate and celebrating the ascension of Paul Ryan...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published November 1, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
With the nickname “The Sunshine State,” it would make sense for Florida to be a leader in solar energy in...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 27, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Starting today, three bills are being rammed through the Wisconsin legislature that will put the final nails in the coffin...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 21, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
“Duke Energy is front and center in a new report connecting the company to a national network of utility interest...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 13, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women,...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 12, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Constitution’s Framers set as one of the new government’s priorities providing for the “general Welfare,” but that progressive mandate...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 11, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Koch brothers, Duke Energy and Arizona Public Service are among 12 special interest groups waging aggressive anti-solar campaigns across...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 30, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Unions are celebrating the rapid demise of union busting national disgrace, Scott Walker. Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 28, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
To Gabriel Zucman, protégé of rock star French economist Thomas Piketty, the United States is starting to look a lot...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 20, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Republicans understand the fundamentals of electoral politics in a way that should absolutely terrify the Democratic Party. It goes like...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 9, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush outlined a tax plan on Wednesday that broadly resembles the tax platform presented in 2000...
Richest One Percent / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published September 8, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders gathered a panel of economists in Washington DC to discuss the Greek debt fiasco. As...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 28, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It would be a stretch to find a person over the age of seven that has never heard, or cannot...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 20, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
In his Monday column, the New York Times’ Paul Krugman argued that desire by almost the entire Republican field of...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 17, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
A number of donors giving eye-popping sums to a super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign are...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 13, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
“He can’t possibly win the nomination,” is the phrase heard most often when Washington insiders mention either Donald Trump or...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 3, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Several news organizations gained rare access Saturday into a private gathering of influential Republican donors hosted by Freedom Partners Chamber...
"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.