As The World Burns, The Rich Cruise In Luxury Through A Melting Arctic
As global temperatures soar, wildfires rage and sea ice levels dwindle to record lows, a luxury cruise company has found a way...
Category: Richest One Percent
Richest One Percent Willing to Swallow Trump’s Lunacy to Get Their Tax Cuts
By now, it’s obvious to everyone with open eyes that Donald Trump is an ignorant, wildly dishonest, erratic, immature, bullying...
The Ultimate Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Profited from Public Subsidies & Political Favors
“It’s not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me. I started off in Brooklyn. My father...
The Koch Brothers Are Meddling In Your State Elections
The Koch Brothers might not be throwing their money behind Donald Trump, but they are certainly still spending a lot...
Trump’s trickle-down ticket: Donald Trump’s VP pick signals a commitment to slashing taxes for millionaires and cutting services for everyone else.
It was easy to get caught up in the circus that was the Republican National Convention. Rousing speeches (plagiarized and...
The Billionaire Koch Bros’ Fingerprints Were All Over the GOP Convention
In the primaries – Donald Trump ran as a “really really rich” candidate who wasn’t beholden to America’s billionaire class....
Latest Republican Scheme: Convert Federal Public Land to State Land, Where It Can Be Sold To Billionaires
Earlier this year, a group of right-wing extremists, led by the infamous Bundy family of Nevada, took over the Malheur National...
Right-Wing Billionaire Sheldon Adelson Wants Taxpayers to Finance His New Stadium
Mark Davis, owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, has promised to relocate his team to southern Nevada if the state...
Paul Krugman: “The modern Republican Party is in essence a machine designed to deliver high after-tax incomes to the 1 percent”
In his Friday New York Times column, Paul Krugman argued that, when it comes down to it, the real reason...
The Hidden Billionaires Behind The Donald
Trump desperately needs to get his tiny hands on some cash to fund his presidential campaign. On TV, Trump may...
U.S. income gap widened last year as top 1 percent gained most
WASHINGTON — Financial inequality became even wider in the United States last year, with average income for the top 1...
Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Barbarism
Most Americans comprehend what it means to be cruel, sadistic, and diabolical because they’ve witnessed Republicans exhibit those qualities in...
Elizabeth Warren Calls Out Billionaire Trump For Skipping Taxes
Editor’s Note: While this isn’t explicitly stated below, Trump has mentioned before an intention to all but wipe out the “Department...
Trump’s Bullying: Frivolous Lawsuits Run Amok
Donald Trump is not one to shy away from lawsuits. Any prominent figure – from politicians to comedians to journalists...
Charles Koch’s High School Economics Project Teaches “Sacrificing Lives for Profits”
Charles Koch is known for being CEO of industrial giant Koch Industries and a chief financier of the massive conservative...
Elizabeth Warren labels Trump a ‘money-grubber’ who rooted against the American economy
lizabeth Warren unloaded on Donald Trump in a speech on Tuesday night, calling him a “money-grubber”, a tool of the...
Con-Artist Trump Twice Skipped Paying Taxes
The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Intend To Spend $42 Million To Keep Mitch McConnell In Power
The Koch brothers are no fans of Donald Trump, but there has been no bigger defender of their dark money...
If You Have A Serious Illness, Paul Ryan Wants To Help You Die Sooner
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) dropped some hints about what the Republican alternative to Obamacare will look like,...
Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans Redistribute Wealth To The Rich
The tax cuts for the rich proposed by the two leading Republican candidates for the presidency – Donald Trump and...
The Republican Plan To Destroy The Government And Let Corporations Rule
Republicans love telling us that the private industry can run things better than the government, and that’s why they work...
Paul Krugman: Tax Cuts for Billionaires are GOP’s Number One Priority
Remember Paul Ryan? The speaker of the House used to be a media darling, lionized as the epitome of the...
The Chamber of Commerce Elite Continues Its Assault On The Working Class
The US Chamber of Commerce is trying to fight a Seattle ordinance that could extend union protections and benefits to...
The Koch-Fueled Plot to Destroy the VA
If you’re a hardcore libertarian, which program would you be most eager to privatize? The VA, of course, which is...
Book Exposes Koch Brothers’ Guide to Infiltrating the Media
A new book by New Yorker writer Jane Mayer lays out how the oil billionaire Koch brothers rose to the powerful position...
Donald Trump Wants to Give His Rich Cronies Huge Tax Breaks
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s tax plan would raise trillions in revenue by increasing taxes on the wealthy, according to...
A Handful of Billionaires Are Trying To Buy The White House
A small group of billionaires is trying very hard to buy the presidency. They want to buy the White House...
How America’s Superrich Are Cutting the Lifespan of the Poor
The American people have a deep sense of fairness. We are angry about the growing pay gap between the top...
Greed-head Billionaire Steve Wynn Now Supports Fellow Billionaire Donald Trump
It’s very odd, as a resident of Las Vegas, to see Steve Wynn making nice to Donald J. Trump of...
Koch Brothers Can’t Stop Trying To Kill People
How much damage can two individuals do? If those two people are the Koch Brothers (pronounced “coke”) the answer is,...
Billionaire Koch’s Promote Hard Right Propaganda Narrative That ‘Greed Is Good’
For decades, the Koch Brothers have funded a massive propaganda operation to disparage what democracy can do when a society...
Wall Street Billionaire Puzzled by Bernie Sanders’ Popularity
Multi-billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman says he’s puzzled by the amount of discontent apparently felt by other Americans these days… Read more…
Paul Krugman: Plutocrats and Prejudice
Every time you think that our political discourse can’t get any worse, it does. The Republican primary fight has devolved...
The One Percent Often Shuns Those Less Fortunate
There’s plenty of evidence to support the work ethic of poor people. —–Almost 63 percent of America’s work-eligible poor are...
Right-Winger David Brooks Thinks Oligarchs Should Be Running The Country
Like many establishment Republicans, the conservative columnist for The New York Times sees the barbarians pouring through the gates and fears...
Twenty Billionaires Own More Than the Bottom Half of Americans
How can there be 400 billionaires so self-absorbed in their fortunes and greed that they cannot see the sea of...
NPR: The ‘Hidden History’ Of The Koch Brothers
In January 2015, at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., the political network led by conservative billionaires Charles and...
Paul Krugman: Privilege, Pathology and Power
Wealth can be bad for your soul. That’s not just a hoary piece of folk wisdom; it’s a conclusion from...
The One Percent Has Devised A Tax System That Saves Them Billions
The hedge fund magnates Daniel S. Loeb, Louis Moore Bacon and Steven A. Cohen have much in common. They have...
Bernie Sanders Explains the Divide and Conquer Strategy of the ‘Ruling Class’
In his wide-ranging interview with “Killer Mike,” Bernie Sanders drew on his knowledge of the civil rights era to show...
Bill Moyers: The One Percent Must Not Be Allowed To Win
Dear Readers: In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington...
Paul Krugman: The One Percent Attempts to Rewrite History of Financial Crisis
In May 2009 Congress created a special commission to examine the causes of the financial crisis. The idea was to...
Investigation Reveals That A Few Wealthy Families Are Attempting To Buy American Democracy
According to an investigation by the New York Times, half of all the money contributed so far to Democratic and...
8 Ways the One Percent Show Their Warped Values and Desire to Destroy the Public’s Safety Net
The richest Americans increasingly are taking over the levers of power and shaping the political debate, despite opposing views held...
Republican Establishment Frets As ObamaCare’s Popularity Increases In Red States
The red states are the backbone of the Republican Party, but growing evidence suggests that opposition to ObamaCare expansion is...
CBS Analyst Frank Luntz Received $1.5 Million From The Koch Brothers to Spew Right-Wing Koch Propaganda
A newly-released IRS filing reveals that a central group in Charles and David Koch’s financial network paid CBS News analyst...
Republicans Big Dream: A 1920s Style Government Where the Rich Make All the Rules
Many Americans are unaware of the many programs and policies put in place by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his New...
Robert Reich: The Big Struggle Is the Financial Elite vs. Everyone Else
The standard explanation for why average working people in advanced nations such as Britain and the United States have failed...
Billion Dollar Baby Donald Trump Says Wages Are Too High
In case you thought it was a gaffe last night during the debate, asked this morning whether he would support...
Jeb Bush’s Tax Plan Treats the Top 1% to an Average Tax Cut of Nearly $180,000
A Citizens for Tax Justice analysis of Jeb Bush’s tax plan reveals that it would cut taxes by $7.1 trillion[i]...
