The party of the rich is now doing everything in its power to make sure those without money live in misery
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 16, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The House of Representatives voted Thursday to give a tax break worth $269 billion to the richest few thousand estates...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Despite the ever-widening income gap in America with the poor and middle class losing wealth to the richest Americans in...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist and one of Congress’ leading advocates for the working class, says any American...
by onepercenttakers · Published March 10, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
All our lives, we have been told that free markets are synonymous with free societies. That neoliberal capitalism is consistent...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 28, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The U. S. government denied bitcoin entrepreneur Roger Ver a visa last week, reported Coin Desk. Ver renounced his American...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 22, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Republicans have accused President Obama of waging class warfare for using his State of the Union to push for an...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 19, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
By next year, the richest one percent will have accumulated more than half of the world’s wealth. A new report...
Fighting Back / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published January 5, 2015 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich produced a short “2014 Year in Review” video in which he reminded...
Corporations / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 30, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
by onepercenttakers · Published December 10, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 9, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 29, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The richest Americans hold more of the nation’s wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published November 20, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Appearing on Monday night’s Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Sen. Bernie Sanders told the show’s host that he’s still contemplating...
Corporations / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 20, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Walmart is a wildly successful company. Its “corporate fact sheet” online boasts that for “the fiscal year ended January 31,...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 14, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Walton family—who, as heirs to the Walmart fortune, have more wealth than 42 percent of American families combined—are impeding...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 8, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Imagine yourself part of the typical American family. Your household would have, the Federal Reserve reported last month, a net...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 7, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
For a long time, the right has argued that we shouldn’t worry about inequality because the true concern is the...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 3, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Mitt Romney explains his 47 percent remark, Take 23. During a recent sit-down with the New York Times’ Mark Leibovich,...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published October 2, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
WASHINGTON — The wealthiest Americans are playing a larger role in politics these days, thanks to campaign finance laws loosened...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 25, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
We’ll be posting a new chart on the current state of income inequality every day for the next couple of...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 23, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It’s the home stretch of the 2014 election season. No single theme or issue has dominated the midterms, but 2014...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 20, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
George Baer was a railroad and coal mining magnate at the turn of the twentieth century. Amid a violent and...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 19, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has donated $10 million to a Karl Rove-backed outfit boosting Republican Senate candidates and...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published September 9, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
“Lifestyles of the Rich Environmentalists,” produced by a group called the Institute for Energy Research, is a slick web video...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 5, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
In 1894, Chicago was the Midwest’s gateway to the rest of the United States. Twenty-four different railroad lines centered or...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 5, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
In a newly released audio recording, obtained by The Undercurrent, a man identified as a top Koch strategist warned that...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 31, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
When the political mercenaries of American oligarchy jet off to consort with their electoral paymasters, they never imagine that the...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 25, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
There are some congressional Republicans who believe the party’s commitment to supply-side, trickle-down tax policy is in need of an...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The good news for US Atlantic coast offshore wind power just keeps rolling along. Earlier this year, renewable energy fans...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The world’s super-rich are returning to the high seas, with the number of luxury yacht sales hitting their highest level...
Politics / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published August 11, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like...
by onepercenttakers · Published August 9, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the United States...
The Commerce Department released some revised figures on America’s economy last week. Previous numbers, Commerce researchers noted, had overestimated the...
Lobbyists / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published August 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. At this largest of its...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 15, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Do you wonder which members of Congress routinely side with the richest 1 percent and Wall Street? Which lawmakers consistently...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 10, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
How much are the mega rich hiding offshore? Independent analysts have been working to pin that figure down. The most...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 4, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
In the global discussion of human rights, impunity refers to de facto immunity from punishment enjoyed by dictators, oligarchs, and...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 3, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 1, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
(Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
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...
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...
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...
"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.