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...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
Courts / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 30, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 28, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 25, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 10, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 9, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 8, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 5, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 1, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 1, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 30, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 26, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. According to “Working for the Few,” a recent briefing paper from Oxfam,...
Budget / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The claim that America is riven by class conflict may come as a surprise to people who like to think...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 24, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Since Ronald Reagan’s “supply-side” tax cuts for the rich – followed by other giveaways like eliminating the “death tax” so...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 23, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
April 15, Washington – As hardworking Americans file their taxes today, it’s a good time to be reminded that ordinary...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 23, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
At 79, Graef “Bud” Crystal is the grand old man of executive compensation critics. Once a top compensation consultant, he...
Environment / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 22, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A bill designed to repeal Kansas’ clean energy law is moving quickly through the state legislature this week — an...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 21, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is taking aim at the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision to eliminate the limit on...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 19, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Extreme inequality, it turns out, creates a class of people who are alarmingly detached from reality — and simultaneously gives...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Charles and David Koch hit a milestone on Wednesday, as a $1.3 billion boost to their collective fortune sent their...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 16, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The chaos in Ukraine can be viewed, in part, as what happens when a collection of “oligarchs” – sometimes competing,...
Fighting Back / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Tuesday on his show “Off the Grid,” former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura “called bullsh*t” on the “one percent” who are...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
As a result of the disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision, billionaires and large corporations can now spend an unlimited...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in U.S. taxes are going unpaid because Americans are exploiting Swiss bank accounts, and the...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
An expensive tax break intended to make more Americans homeowners is instead making American homes bigger without benefiting non-rich people,...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S....
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was “the biggest company you’ve never heard of.” Now the...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked Thursday whether the U.S. was evolving into an oligarchy during a speech on the Senate...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
People like Sheldon Adelson support candidates who are in favor of lowering tax rates for corporations and the super-wealthy —...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) accused the Koch brothers of “trying to buy America”.
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A new pair of reports suggests that the super rich are richer than we thought.
by onepercenttakers · Published April 12, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
A Delaware man convicted of raping his three-year-old daughter only faced probation after a state Superior Court judge ruled he...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 12, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson told a crowd at Yeshiva University in New York on Tuesday that the only proper negotiating...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 12, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Yes, there are “takers” in the American economy, but they’re not the poor folks Mitt Romney referenced in his now-infamous...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 11, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Does being super-wealthy make you extra susceptible to self-pity today? That’s the only conclusion we can draw from an epidemic...
"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.