NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Category: Taxes
Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
The Tax-Cut Con Goes On: Paul Krugman
What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats...
Trump’s tax plan con exposed: Corporate tax revenue at 75-year low
The Trump White House got something wrong. It would be more surprising if it got something right. Do you remember...
Professed Christian Paul Ryan Fires House Chaplain For Praying About GOP Tax Bill
WASHINGTON ― House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
GOP Spends Big Money Trying To Sell Corporate Tax Cuts, But Poll Shows Most Americans Aren’t Buying
As right-wing advocacy groups embark on yet another campaign to sell the American public on the GOP’s corporate-friendly tax law...
Average American Taxpayer Sent $3,456 to Pentagon Last Year and Just $39 to the EPA
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
Under Republican Tax Law — Richest One Percent Get Extra $33,000 Per Year — The Poor Get $40
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
Budget Deficit Projected To Go Up 31 Percent Due To Trump Tax Cuts For Billionaires
The United States Treasury Department said Monday that the federal budget deficit in February was significantly higher than a year...
U.S. Now The Second Largest Tax Haven
According to the 2018 Financial Secrecy Index, the US ranks as the second largest tax haven on earth, surpassing the...
Trump’s Golf Trips Cost Taxpayers $43 Million In 2017
According to a new analysis of Trump’s golfing habits, his frequent trips to the golf course cost American taxpayers $43...
Billionaire Koch Bros Launch $20 Million Propaganda Campaign To Get Americans To Support Tax Cuts For The Rich
The Koch Brothers, through their political action networks, have decided to spend $20 million on a new ad campaign designed...
As The Rich Get Tax Cuts, More Americans Fall Into Extreme Poverty
The Republican Party that controls all branches of our federal government recently decided that the most important thing they could...
Trump Told Friends ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ From Tax Bill
President Donald Trump told friends at his lavish Mar-a-Lago club “you all just got a lot richer” after the passage...
Protesters Heckle Paul Ryan And Scream Liar As He Celebrates Cutting Taxes For The Rich
As Ryan claimed that he was giving hard working people their money back, protesters interrupted his remarks on the House...
Whiny Millionaires Beg Trump To Give Them Even More Tax Breaks
In spite of the fact that every analysis performed on the Republican tax cut package shows that the legislation is...
Trump Family To Save $1 Billion Under New Tax Plan, Middle Class Gets Shafted
According to a new analysis of the tax plan that passed the House this week, the entire Trump family will...
Trump’s Exit From Anti-Corruption Pact Helps Big Oil Hide How Much It Pays In US Taxes
The Trump administration has pulled out of a global deal to combat corruption in the fossil fuel industry, a move...
Bernie Sanders Sounds The Alarm: Middle-Class Americans Will Foot The Bill For GOP Tax Scam
Bernie Sanders sounded the alarm about the GOP tax plan on Thursday, saying the massive tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
How Corporate Giant Nike Stays One Step Ahead of the Taxman
Everyone knows Nike. Most people probably own a pair of Nikes. It is unquestionably one of the best-known brands in...
Bernie Sanders Warns of ‘International Oligarchy’ After Paradise Papers Leak
Bernie Sanders has warned that the world is rapidly becoming an “international oligarchy” controlled by a tiny number of billionaires,...
The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us That It Is The Rich Who Matter To Republicans
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of...
Trump And His Cabinet Will Make $3.5 Billion From Their Tax Scheme
The tax plan being pushed by Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Washington is nothing more than a “get...
The U.S. Tax Code — $4.6 Billion In U.S. Oil Company Subsidies Per Year
In a new study of 800 undeveloped U.S. oil fields, researchers found that about half of the fields will never...
Republicans To Pay For Massive Tax Cuts For The Rich By Cutting Social Security/Medicare
Republicans are going to unveil the details of a massive tax cut for the wealthy and corporations, but they aren’t...
Subsidizing Earth’s Demise: US Taxpayers Forced to Prop Up Dirty Energy Industry
In the midst of a hurricane season that shows just how expensive inaction on climate change can be, two new...
Trump promised to put American workers first. He lied.
As Donald Trump celebrates Labor Day by proposing to slash taxes for CEOs such as himself, it may come as...
Trump Uses Massive Damage From Hurricanes To Call For Giving Himself A Tax Cut
The tax cuts and tax reform that are being discussed would overwhelmingly benefit Donald Trump. How big of a tax...
Bipartisan Bills Aim to Close Tax Loophole for Rich Sports Owners
In 1986, a tax reform bill included language that would allow bonds to be tax exempt if they were used...
Bernie Sanders Unmasks Trump’s Budget Director as a Fraudster
Shortly after the Trump administration unveiled its controversial budget proposal for 2018, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) totally dismantled the plan...
Bernie Sanders Exposes The Dark Secret That Trump’s Budget Is Desperately Trying To Hide
During an interview with NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called Trump’s budget an abomination and exposed the...
Warren Buffett Says Trumpcare Is A Big Giveaway To The Richest One Percent
For a guy who stands to keep over half-a-million dollars, Warren Buffett is not too pleased. In a Monday appearance...
Donald Trump Resurrects Trickle Down Economics
Donald Trump loves the 1980s. After all, that was when his celebrity rose in New York, when Trump Tower was...
Ivanka Trump Is Pushing Congress To Pass A $500 Billion Gift To Rich People With Nannies
The Trump family is showing that they have no understanding of the lives of regular people, as President Trump’s daughter...
Israel’s Welfare Dependency Grows: Largest Recipient of U.S. Foreign Aid
Israel now receives $3.2 billion in direct foreign assistance, courtesy of American taxpayers each year. This is about one-fifth of...
Trump May Have Used Illegal Scheme To Skip Paying Taxes
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has basically admitted that he avoided paying federal income tax for years in the 1990s....
Donald Trump would give massive cut tax cuts to the richest one percent, adding trillions to the national debt
The Tax Foundation, a conservative D.C. think tank created to argue for lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, found that...
Giuliani Attempts to ‘Put Lipstick on a Pig’ by Defending Trump’s Tax Dodging
Rudy Giuliani went on ABC’s This Week and added to the woes of the Trump campaign with a series of...
Clinton Proposes Raising Taxes on U.S. Billionaire Estates
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday proposed raising taxes on inherited property to 65 percent for the largest...
Republican Leader Paul Ryan’s Tax Plan is a Massive Handout to the Richest One Percent
Paul Ryan (WI), Republican Speaker of the House, has lately fashioned himself as a crusader for the poor, apologizing for...
Studies Show Trump’s Economic Plan Would Rig the Tax System Even More in Favor of the Richest One Percent
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump touted a retooled economic plan on Thursday, promising to provide middle-class tax cuts and eliminate perks...
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...
Trump Admits That He Will Lose The Election If He Releases His Tax Returns
Donald Trump admitted in a new interview that if he releases his tax returns, he will lose the election… Read...
Report Shows Tax-Dodging by Utility Companies Worth Billions
Utilities companies pay the lowest effective tax rate of any U.S. business sector, and in 2015 this tax-dodging added up...
David Cay Johnston: There is “Incredibly Strong Evidence” Donald Trump Has Committed Tax Fraud
For months, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has refused to release his tax returns. We speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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...
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...
Americans Favor Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan
A new WalletHub/Survey Monkey poll of 2016 taxpayers found that Bernie Sanders has the most popular tax plan of all...
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...
