Monday, January 8, 2018

Economics and Corruption related links 010818



“It just seems wrong.” GOP rep admits tax scam he voted for rips off working people: Rep. Tom Cole knows the GOP tax scheme will hurt working Americans — but his colleagues told him to vote for it anyway. So he did.


 

Trump turning US into 'world champion of extreme inequality', UN envoy warns: Special rapporteur Philip Alston, fresh from fact-finding tour, issues devastating critique of US society and condemns ‘private wealth and public squalor’


 

War on the Blue States: The Republican tax bill is an assault on the cultural and economic foundation of liberal America.


 

Robert Samuelson: Beware an economic boom! 


 

WILL DURST: A classier class war


 

LETTERS to the EDITOR


 

We Were There


 

WHAT DOES THE INTERNET LOOK LIKE IF NET BECOMES LESS NEUTRAL?


 

Washington’s War on Poor Grad Students: Imagine having to pay thousands of dollars of taxes on virtually no income.


 

Republican Tax Scam: Make America Grieve Again.  We’ve been down this road before.


 

"Rich People Need Tax Cuts": The Republican Tax Plan


 

Why this House tax scheme is for idiots: The Republican tax-cutting bill steals from the struggling future to give even more to the comfortable present


 

The True Cost of Inequality


 

A Haitian disaster in the making: Donald Trump ends the era of American goodwill. Tens of thousands of Haitian refugees are being told to leave. Here’s why that may be a problem in three years


 

Newspeak in Trumplandia: Block Grants


 

Fish Heads and Chicken Feet in Your Future?


 

This Tax Plan Is Going to Cost a Lot More Than Advertised: If the Trump-GOP tax plan doesn’t stink, why are they lying about the cost?


 

The Republican Death Obsession


 

Stop Pretending the Estate Tax Has Anything to do with Family Farmers: Rolling back the estate tax is the least of our concerns.


 

Tax cuts alone won’t answer U.S. economic needs, Bloomberg says


 

Tax bill lets Trump and Republicans feather their own nests


 

Dan Fogelberg - The Power of Gold (from Live: Greetings from the West)


 

The Republican tax bill got worse: now the top 1% gets 83% of the gains: In its last year, the bill raises taxes on more than 53 percent of Americans.


 

Sen. Bob Corker Failed to Properly Disclose Millions of Dollars in Income: Tennessee Republican files amendments to reports going back to 2007; ‘I am extremely disappointed in the filing errors’


 

The 35 Percent Corporate Tax Myth


 

Poll: Trump and GOP never intended to strike a bipartisan tax deal


 

BREAKING: Democrats Nullify House Tax Vote In Heroic Last-Ditch Effort To Save America


 

Dozens of lawmakers stand to reap a tax windfall due to a GOP loophole: •Dozens of lawmakers stand to reap a tax windfall thanks to a loophole inserted in the sweeping GOP tax overhaul bill, according to a review of federal financial disclosures; •The provision would also create generous tax saving for President Trump; •The measure reduces the tax rate on "pass-through" income derived from real estate; •Those benefits will now go to roughly four dozen Republican House and Senate members who voted for the bill, according to an analysis of personal financial disclosures for CNBC by the Center for Responsive Politics.


 

House Republicans vote to send massive tax overhaul to Trump's desk: •The House overcomes a final procedural hurdle, voting to pass a Republican tax overhaul and sending it to the president's desk; •The vote was necessary after a procedural problem arose late Tuesday with the Senate's version; •The Senate raced to fix the bill Tuesday afternoon and passed it in the wee hours of Wednesday.


 

Donald Trump and the Republican Party just committed suicide


 

A Nobel economist just slammed Senator Collins in brutal tweet over Republican tax bill


 

Legislation Will Be Repealed and Replaced With Era of Tax Justice


 

Corporate Tax Sellout: “Welcome to tax policy by conflict-of-interest. The Republican tax scheme is a plan made for billionaires – exactly like the one in the White House.”


 

Civil Rights Groups Sue U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Over Suspension of Rule Assisting Low-Income Families


 

Alternatives to NAFTA and Corporate Globalization


 

Trump’s phony populism is fully exposed in the Republican tax bill: This bill is not for the forgotten men and women of America.


 

The Republican tax bill is an American betrayal: The American people voted for populism. They got plutocracy.


 

Mulvaney Can Lead Consumer Watchdog, But the Legal Battle Over the Agency Is Just Beginning


 

Canberra voices fears but who will contain the dragon?


 

Montini: John McCain and Jeff Flake sold you out on tax reform


 

Montini: Senators passed a tax bill none of them read


 

1980-82 Early 1980s Recession


 

MSU scholars find $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending; Defense Department to conduct first-ever audit


 

Raging Granny Ruth takes on the GOP tax bill


 

Congress Passes Tax Bill Putting Medicare at Risk


 

Medicare Rights Calls on Congress to Pass the BENES Act This Year


 

Enrolling in Medicare if you missed your Initial Enrollment Period


 

This Tax Accountant's Thoughts on the New Tax Law


 

America, you've just called up the Kansas tax scheme to the big leagues. Here's how to talk about it


 

Ever wondered what America looked like heading into the Great Depression?


 

Republicans plan mega marketing push to sell unpopular tax plan: 'When [voters] start to see what happens to their paychecks,' said one conservative, 'they will change their minds.'


 

Trump-GOP Tax Scam


 

Trump administration is trying to hide the $5.8 billion its tip-stealing plan would cost workers


 

The Senate passes a tax bill: Republicans’ claim to be the party of balanced budgets is now laughable


 

A capital question: Why is America more tolerant of inequality than many rich countries? Ignorance about the scale of the problem is part of the answer


 

World’s Wealthiest Fear the Poor Will ‘Strike Back’ as They Get Even Richer


 

Trump Budget Plan Declares War on ‘War on Poverty’ Programs


 

Marco Rubio: Tax Bill ‘Probably Went Too Far’ On Corporate Handouts.  A little late there, senator.


 

Why so Many Americans Hate Trump's Tax Reform


 

Trump’s Tax ‘Reform’ Will Devastate At-Risk College Students


 

DISPATCHES: CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE MIGHT END IN JANUARY BECAUSE CONGRESS SPENT THE MONEY ON TAX CUTS


 

Writers on the Range: Congress has fought back on budget cuts


 

Our Social Structure is Rigged: Laws and policies don’t determine your entire life, but each one makes it either easier or harder to get ahead.


 

The GOP Tax Scam: Naming the Culprits: There's only one way to stop the #GOPTaxScam from becoming law: massive public mobilization that makes very clear the culprits will be held to account


 

The Rest of Us Get the Lickspittle


 

Everyone Hates This Tax Bill: The more the public learns about the tax cut plan making its way through Congress, the more they hate it.


 

Dean Baker | Tax Cuts Boost Growth, and Other Things They Tell Children


 

“Every Darn Penny”: The GOP’s Philosophy on Death and Taxes.  The Republican philosophy to reward those who need it least.


 

The True Path to Prosperity


 

JACKSON: The American plutocracy gets its immoral tax bill


 

Republicans Unhappy with Independent Bank Watchdog


 

Medicare Imports Must be Reduced


 

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in Washington, D.C.


 

Be Aware of the Dark Side of Sports Media


 

Net Neutrality RIP: Essential Parts of America's DNA are About to Be Destroyed.  The end of net neutrality means that a guarantee to privacy and anonymity are kaput, too


 

Sports Tax Scams Laid the Groundwork for Amazon Bidding Madness: Cities that have been most shameless in their stadium spending are now groveling for Amazon’s largesse.


 

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.  To fend off the Republicans’ one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.


 

How To Catch a Wage Thief: Day laborers in Denver are tracking down runaway employers.


 

Should progressives support soda taxes?  Cities from Chicago to Philadelphia have experimented with a tax on sweetened beverages. Tom Philpott, Max B. Sawicky and Melina Packer debate the merits.


 

Gutting Net Neutrality Is the Trump Administration’s Most Brutal Blow to Democracy Yet: This cannot be the end of a free and open Internet. Activists must fight on in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets.


 

Long Sacrosanct, the Mortgage-Interest Deduction Comes Under Scrutiny: But Republicans want to funnel savings to the rich—not renters, who could use the help.


 

The Dollar Is in Trouble: U.S. currency should be strong, but Trump's presidency may be causing investors to sour.


 

The parade after the Rose Parade: About 200 march for universal health care


 

Trump takes credit for no air travel deaths in 2017


 

First, this town lost its Macy’s. Then Sears. Now, all eyes were on J.C. Penney.


 

California rolls its own recreational pot sales out for 2018


 

Iceland Makes It Illegal To Pay Women Less Than Men, & Twitter Has A Lot Of Feelings


 

This couple bought 40 acres for $9,000 in California years ago—now their self-sufficient pot farm is worth millions


 

The Golden State’s new pot laws are almost comically progressive: Some cities plan to give people with marijuana convictions priority when setting up legal pot shops


 

Gov. Cuomo: State will sue to block federal tax overhaul


 

Sessions will end policy that allowed legalized marijuana to prosper


 

US to end policy that let legal pot flourish


 

Intel, Microsoft Deal With Widespread Computer-Chip Weakness


 

America’s Worst Graveyard Shift Is Grinding Up Workers: Cleanup at the slaughterhouse is as dangerous as it is repulsive, and the immigrants who do the work are under pressure to complete it faster than ever.


 

Student Debt Slavery: Bankrolling Financiers on the Backs of the Young


 

Jeff Sessions Unleashes Federal Prosecutors On Legal Marijuana: The Justice Department is rolling back Obama-era rules that allowed states to cultivate legal marijuana industries.


 

Here Comes Another Effort To Undermine Obamacare’s Rules For Health Insurance: It could mean cheaper, skimpier coverage for healthy people — and higher costs for others.


 

JOB INTERVIEW FROM HELL... with a Millennial


 

AG Eric Schneiderman forces NYC Papa John’s franchises to dish up $172G over labor law violation


 

Marijuana tax revenue hit $200 million in Colorado as sales pass $1 billion


 

Donald Trump suggests he wants US law to limit free speech in wake of publication of explosive new book: President says that if legislation on libel was stronger 'you wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes into your head'


 

Corporate Mergers Drain the Life From Democracy Is it Too Late to Save Ours?


 

Trump takes new tack to weaken ObamaCare


 

Top charts of 2017: 12 charts that show the real problems policies must tackle, not the made-up ones


 

The economy has made great strides since the recession, but weakness remains


 

The arguments supporting corporate tax cuts are wrong, and territorial taxation will make things worse


 

NLRB reverses Browning-Ferris, makes it harder for workers to bargain with their employers


 

The courts are getting it wrong when it comes to unpaid interns


 

By overturning Specialty Healthcare, the NLRB has made it harder for workers to organize


 

Man told by city to stop having ‘slumber parties’ in his house for homeless people

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