After Billionaires Gained $1 Trillion in Wealth, Says Sanders, It Is Not ‘Radical’ to Demand More $1,200 Stimulus Checks
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Budget / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published December 19, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a...
The American people have voted to kick President Donald Trump out of the White House, but in its waning weeks,...
When the late New York City real estate magnate Leona Helmsley infamously said “only the little people pay taxes,” she spoke the...
Billionaire wealth increased to $10.2 trillion through the end of July, setting a new record amid the coronavirus pandemic even...
The authors of two separate poverty studies out of three top universities said Thursday that their findings make the unmistakable...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 30, 2020
In 2011, The New York Times published what was, at the time, the most shocking expose on tax policy in...
Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published September 28, 2020
The $750 in federal income taxes that Donald Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 is an attention-grabbing number—in large part...
Millions of children across the United States are already going hungry amid the economic recession spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
LAKESIDE, Calif. — This is America: a family crammed in a minivan driving mile after mile across San Diego County,...
On Tuesday, the S&P 500 stock index hit a record high. The next day, Apple became the first U.S. company...
Kenny Overstreet scrounges every penny—and even sells the eggs his chickens lay—to make ends meet after Packaging Corporation of America...
Cruz Santos thought her life was finally turning around in early March when she found a job at a shoe...
Shortly after publicly ditching one attack on Social Security — the payroll tax cut — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed Thursday...
The past three months have been financially painful for many Americans — but not for billionaires.US billionaires have become $565 billion richer...
U.S. billionaires’ wealth grew substantially over the last two months even as tens of millions of Americans lost their jobs,...
CEOs / Corruption / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published May 24, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders was among critics outraged that the fossil fuel industry is using tax breaks in the CARES Act...
Budget / Corruption / Inequality / Politics / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published April 14, 2020
Enjoy your $1,200 one-time consolation prize for losing your livelihood, your way of life, and your economic security in this...
New Orleans — Back in 1997, when Steve Scalise was a Louisiana state representative, he joined other right-wing lawmakers in...
Sen. Rand Paul’s office has refused to say how the Senator from Kentucky was able to get tested for coronavirus...
A four minute video that aired on CBS Friday morning was praised for using slices of real pie to show the huge...
Economy / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published January 14, 2020
Every month when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its monthly jobs report, Donald Trump and Republicans crow about the...
New data released Monday explains the numbers behind Sen. Bernie Sanders’ often-cited statistic that the three richest Americans hold more...
The Trump administration has finalized a rule change to the SNAP program that will take away food from 755,000 Americans...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely...
Billionaires are wailing that wealth tax proposals by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are attacks on free-market capitalism. Warren “vilifies...
Betterment / Fighting Back / Inequality / Richest One Percent / Taxes
by onepercenttakers · Published October 29, 2019
California Congressman Jimmy Gomez on Friday introduced legislation in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House that aims to address “our country’s rapidly...
The Trump administration is trying to change eligibility requirements so that 1 million kids would lose access to free school...
The U.S. tax system is supposed to be progressive, meaning that wealthier households pay a larger share of their income...
When billionaire Jeff Bezos cut health benefits on September 13 for part-time workers at his grocery store Whole Foods the...
In an interview ahead of Labor Day, AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka said workers across the nation are suffering under President...
I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved “left” and that Democratic candidates may be “too far left”. But...
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
As rideshare drivers across the U.S. and around the world continue to struggle for decent wages, benefits, and the basic right to...
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
Some politicians are calling for higher taxes on the rich. Naturally, these proposals have unleashed a torrent of opposition –...
The Trump-Republican tax scam continued to rear its ugly head for the third straight week as figures released late Friday...
Most Americans believe that a rising tide should lift all boats—that as the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards....
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the...
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the...
An interesting thing about politics is how you can distill so many nuanced policies down to a few core ideological...
What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats...
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections...
"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.