How the Koch Brothers Stole Ohio
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
Category: Richest One Percent
The 37 Senators Who Voted for Millionaires Over Students
On Wednesday, June 11, Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the...
The Right’s Despicable Class War on the Poor
The old adage about sticks and stones may finally apply more soundly to the rich than the poor. According to...
The Walton Family Shows Little Interest in Charity
Four members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a combined wealth of close to $140 billion....
Is David Koch Getting a Tax Writeoff for Dropping $900K on the Walker Race?
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
Someone finally polled the 1% — And it’s not pretty
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
Judge who ended probe of Koch activities in WI regularly attends Koch-funded junkets
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Koch Brothers, ALEC, Grover Norquist Target Solar Energy
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
After Huge Tax Cuts For The Rich, Kansas’s Economy Is Foundering
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
Koch Brothers’ Secrets Revealed In New Book
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
Who Are the Real Takers?
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million election spending spree
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
The Striking Rise of the American Oligarchs
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
Richest Americans See Huge Growth in Income
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
The ‘Makers’ and the ‘Takers’
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
Paul Krugman: How conservatives and the rich disgraced economics
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
The Koch Attack on Solar Energy
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
Show Me the Money: Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri’s Schools
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
Supreme Oligarchy
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Donald Sterling’s Disgusting 1 Percent Ramblings: Let’s Pity the Racist Billionaire
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
Tech Millionaire Who Beat Girlfriend 117 Times Ducks Jail
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
Top 1 Percent Take Record Share of U.S. Income
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
ALEC and the Koch Brothers Fight Solar Energy with Surcharges
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Government = Protection Racket for the 1 Percent
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
U.S. is a World Leader in Class Conflict Over Government Spending
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
America’s Mad Dash to Oligarchy
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
Offshore Tax Havens Cost Average Taxpayer $1,259 a Year, Small Businesses $3,923
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
C.E.O. Pay Goes Up, Up and Away!
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
Koch-Funded Groups Fuel Assault On Kansas Clean Energy Law
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
Justice Stevens: John Roberts Really Wants To Protect Rich
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
Paranoia of the Plutocrats
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
Koch Brothers Net Worth Soars Past $100 Billion
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...
The Age of the Oligarchs
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
Jesse Ventura Rips B*tchy Billionaires: The Poor Work Just as Hard as You Do
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
What Do the Koch Brothers Really Want?
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited...
Top 1 Percent Take Record Share of U.S. Income
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Wealth Inequality Is Now As Bad As It Was During The 1920s
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
Huge Swiss bank Credit Suisse helping wealthy Americans hide $10-$12B: U.S. Senate panel
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the...
America’s $100 Billion Tax Break Helps The Rich Buy Bigger Homes
An expensive tax break intended to make more Americans homeowners is instead making American homes bigger without benefiting non-rich people,...
US Is an Oligarchy Not a Democracy, says Scientific Study
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S....
Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
Bernie Sanders: Greedy Billionaires Twisting American Dream Into Nightmarish Oligarchy
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
For Adelson, Koch Brothers, Buying a Politician is Good Business
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
The Government Listens to Lobbyists and the Wealthy, Not You and Me
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Reid: Koch Brothers Want ‘to Buy America’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
The Super Rich Are Richer Than We Thought, Hiding Huge Sums, New Reports Find
A new pair of reports suggests that the super rich are richer than we thought.
