Trickle-down economics hollowed out the middle class. It’s time to stop listening to the architects of inequality
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published June 13, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
On April 30, 2012, Edward Conard, a former partner for the financial management company Bain Capital and a multimillionaire who...
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is taking back family values from the Republican Party by unveiling his Family Values Agenda. The...
Instead of investing in dirty fuels, let’s start charging polluters for poisoning our skies – and then invest the revenue...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 10, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon vetoed a controversial right to work bill (House Bill No. 116) on Thursday. In rejecting...
According to the oil industry, the very idea of ending billions-of-dollars in taxpayer subsidies for the profitable industry is un-American;...
May marks a new record for President Obama’s private sector job growth record, with the private sector adding 12.6 million...
Bernie Sanders is becoming a daily nightmare for Republicans. Sen. Sanders went on CNN today and cut through the Republican...
Powerful interests are facing off on the future of renewable energy in North Carolina. A bill to freeze the state’s...
In yet another example of how politics are personal, the public is being put at risk by the head of...
Slacker Alert: Jeb Bush is calling to push the retirement age to 68 or 70. That will fix you entitled...
Last week my colleague Simon Maloy caught us up with the latest on Kanses Gov. Sam Brownback’s famous Arthur Laffer...
by onepercenttakers · Published June 2, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive...
Through a quirk in state term limits combined with a terrible midterm election, the Nevada legislature has been taken over...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 28, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) officially launched his presidential campaign with a vowed goal of building a movement that will take...
Bernie Sanders reacted to the news that the big banks pled guilty to manipulating currency markets by blunting saying that...
In their first 138 days in control of Congress, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner have passed zero jobs bill. Instead,...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 25, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
When Americans think of how the economic rules are stacked against them, they naturally think of Wall Street. When the...
Inequality / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 23, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The widening gap between haves and have-nots in much of the developed world not only raises concerns about the fraying...
During a Health Subcommittee Hearing on Competition in Medicare, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) busted Republicans for trying to elimate competition...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 22, 2015 · Last modified November 14, 2015
The corporate office of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois was closed after thousands of workers and union activists marched on...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled legislation today that would make tuition free at all public four-year colleges and universities by...
The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas of five big banks: Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays PLC, The...
Los Angeles on Tuesday became the biggest U.S. city to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour. Following a...
Despite a growing body of scientific research connecting oil and gas activity to a dramatic spike in earthquakes across several...
by onepercenttakers · Published May 18, 2015 · Last modified November 16, 2015
Wall Street is openly worrying that Bernie Sanders is pushing Hillary Clinton to the left by calling for the biggest...
While speaking at Georgetown University, the President called out Fox News by name: “But part of it has also been...
It is nearly impossible to keep track of the myriad ways America is falling behind the rest of the industrialized...
Governor Scott Walker promised Wisconsinites that he could jump start the economy with tax cuts for big business, even though...
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking on Wall Street directly with a new bill that would break up the nation’s “too...
At least eight school districts in Kansas are closing their doors early for the summer as a result of Kansas...
Environment / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published May 7, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
There are myriad reasons why someone has intense hostility towards, and aversion to, a person or thing that typically derives...
Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan weighed in on the reason for violence in Baltimore and used it to continue his...
McDonald’s workers will gatecrash the burger company’s shareholder meeting later this month with “the biggest-ever protest” demanding an end to...
Nearly 38 million Americans — or one in four workers– would get a raise under a bill introduced this week...
At a press conference where he laid out his agenda, Sen. Sanders took on the Koch brothers: “The major issue...
Robert Reich, the Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, published an essay in the most recent American Prospect in which...
While Congressional Republicans wave the flag with one hand, they are trying to cut benefits for 70,000 veterans with the...
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) dropped a bomb on Senate Republicans by revealing that their budget would kill more than 2...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 28, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
It has been just about a year since Charles Koch wrote a ‘woe is me’ op-ed to combat the bad...
Three sitting Republican Governors interested in seeking a promotion to become U.S. President, represent states that have posted well-below average...
by onepercenttakers · Published April 26, 2015 · Last modified November 16, 2015
SEATAC, Washington — In late 2013, voters in this airport town outside Seattle narrowly approved a groundbreaking measure setting a...
Here in Detroit, the worst of what many of us have long suspected about Gov. Snyder’s intentions toward our city...
President Obama has outsmarted Congressional Republican obstructionists with a planned executive action that will raise the wages of millions of...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 23, 2015 · Last modified November 25, 2015
The Koch’s didn’t say why Jeb Bush isn’t their “chosen one,” but odds are that it is because Bush doesn’t...
It is beyond refute that Republicans have devised some truly cruel means of stealing from taxpayers and the poor to...
Unless the American people mobilize and stand up to billionaires, like the Koch brothers, no Democratic president can succeed with...
"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.