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...
Category: Richest One Percent
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Donald Trump Wants to Give His Rich Cronies Huge Tax Breaks
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
A Handful of Billionaires Are Trying To Buy The White House
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
Greed-head Billionaire Steve Wynn Now Supports Fellow Billionaire Donald Trump
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
Billionaire Koch’s Promote Hard Right Propaganda Narrative That ‘Greed Is Good’
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Wall Street Billionaire Puzzled by Bernie Sanders’ Popularity
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats and Prejudice
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
The One Percent Often Shuns Those Less Fortunate
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
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...
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...
