Scott Brown’s Big-Money Sellout
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
Name a major super-PAC or dark-money outfit and there’s a good chance it has helped Republican Scott Brown, the former...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 15, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
What does “SWIMNUT” know that the world’s supposed experts on corruption or the elites who gather each year for skiing...
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...
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...
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...
Fighting Back / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published July 17, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
The 2014 elections are awash in dark money—and it’s only getting worse. The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity alone plans to...
Arkansas is witnessing what may be the most expensive political ad campaign in state history: $1.5 million worth of glowing...
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 —...
"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.