Bernie Sanders Unveils a 12 Point Economic Plan to Break the Koch Oligarchs
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
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...
by onepercenttakers · Published November 11, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
Responding to the “disgraceful” voter turnout for last week’s midterm election—just 36.6 percent—Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) argued on Monday that...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 22, 2014 · Last modified November 23, 2015
The Independent U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders was in the city of Richmond, California on Thursday and said local...
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 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...
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...
At the ‘New Populism Conference’ hosted by the Campaign for America’s Future on Thursday, a number of progressive thinkers and...
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...
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 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 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....
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...
"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.