Republicans and Wall Street Line Up to Put Taxpayers on the Hook
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
by onepercenttakers · Published January 29, 2015 · Last modified November 11, 2015
Recently, Congress has passed measures to weaken regulations in Dodd-Frank that are intended to reduce the risk of another financial...
Forget lobbyists. When big corporations want to wield influence, they often put far more of their money into advertising and...
Lobbyists / Politics / Wall Street
by onepercenttakers · Published December 13, 2014 · Last modified November 22, 2015
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
by onepercenttakers · Published October 19, 2014 · Last modified November 25, 2015
There may be no Washington lawmaker cozier with K Street than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). DC law firms...
by onepercenttakers · Published September 2, 2014 · Last modified November 28, 2015
At least 72 corporate funders have cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the wake of the...
Even as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance...
After forty years of pushing corporate-friendly policy in state legislatures, this week the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching...
by onepercenttakers · Published July 19, 2014 · Last modified August 6, 2014
Every business sector has its friends in Washington. Financial companies — from the biggest megabanks to small payday lenders —...
Having already moved to gut USDA programs promoting agricultural conservation and renewable energy and strip the USDA of its authority...
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed...
Corporations / Lobbyists / Workers
by onepercenttakers · Published May 15, 2014 · Last modified September 3, 2014
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Politics / Richest One Percent
by onepercenttakers · Published April 13, 2014 · Last modified November 27, 2015
When organized interest groups or economic elites want a particular policy passed, there’s a strongly likelihood their wishes will come...
"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.