Saturday, December 16, 2017

Economics and Corruption related links 121617



Court Sides With Wall Street Against Consumers in CFPB Leadership Fight


 

Wall Street Titans Poised to Reap $28 Billion From a Single Provision of Senate Tax Bill


 

Regulations Stopped by the Trump Administration Would Have Provided Crucial Public Protections


 

Apple, Microsoft Poised to Reap Nearly $75 Billion From a Single Provision of Trump’s Tax Plan: Eight Silicon Valley Technology Corporations Hoarding Profits Abroad Stand to Reap $95 Billion From Proposed Tax Holiday


 

Tiberi Could Be Writing Tax Law That Would Benefit His Future Employer’s Membership


 

Trump’s Department of Education Signals Its Intention to Protect Predatory, For-Profit Colleges Over Students


 

Ruling in Trump Protest Case Protects Anonymous Speech but Limits Protections for Organizers


 

With This Temporary Chief, IRS to Become Enforcement-Free Zone


 

Will A Pharma Fox Run The Health Care Henhouse?


 

The Koch Government: These 44 Trump Officials Have Close Ties to Right-Wing Billionaire Brothers


 

How One Section of the Trump Tax Scam Showers Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Big Pharma with Billions


 

Sacrificing Public Protections on the Altar of Deregulation


 

Elizabeth Warren Rallies Supporters Against Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Appointment: Democrats want to turn the CFPB leadership battle into a referendum on the president’s professed populist agenda.


 

Stop Pretending the Estate Tax Has Anything to Do With Family Farmers


 

As Republican tax bill evolved, benefits for corporations and the wealthy grew


 

Sanders: GOP Tax Plan "Laying The Groundwork For Cuts To Social Security"


 

This Republican State Senator is Trying to Clean Up the Failed Kansas Tax Experiment


 

Proposed U.S. Cuts to AIDS Funding Could Cause Millions of Deaths: Report.  While the Trump administration praises its progress on the AIDS fight, health campaigners warn they are making the fight that much harder.


 

Small Businesses Are An Afterthought In Senate Tax Fight: Senate Republicans are squabbling over relative tax benefits for the richest companies.


 

Paul Ryan Struggles To Explain Why Trump Shouldn’t Have To Resign Over Sexual Misconduct Claims: He said he’s only focused on misconduct in Congress.


 

CASY brings military and veteran job seekers together with employers who are looking to hire.  Our team has provided free job placement assistance to more than 100,000 military service members and veterans.


 

 “The hypocrisy is astounding”: this tax bill shows the GOP’s debt concerns were pure fraud.  Republicans are proving themselves nihilists.


 

4 winners and 3 losers in the Senate tax bill.  Winner: corporations. Loser: charities.


 

The Republican tax bill will exacerbate income inequality in America: “The bill is investing heavily in the wealthy and their children.”


 

What Happens If The Individual Mandate Is Repealed?  Health Care Reporter Shares Her Expertise On ACA


 

Charlottesville Residents Unite to Protest Likely Surge in Health-Insurance Premiums: Virginia county that is home to college town will see highest costs in the nation in 2018 for people on health-law exchanges


 

Marco Rubio reveals GOP plan: Gut Social Security and Medicare to pay for tax cuts


 

Thousands of kids could lose health insurance next month if Congress doesn't act fast


 

400,000 Texas children could lose health coverage if CHIP not funded


 

GOP Tax Plan: Live Coverage


 

F*ck 'em: The Republican tax cut scheme is a Trojan horse to throw cancer patients out of treatment


 

Senate Republicans pass massive, radical social engineering project they call a tax bill


 

Civics 101—Republicons applauded like they did something, but this is NOT OVER: NEXT STEPS HERE


 

Senate Republicans' push for massive tax cuts bill has become surreal


 

The Republican tax bill will end cancer treatment for Medicare patients


 

Who’s in Charge at CFPB?


 

New Executive Director Appointed at FLRA


 

DC Court of Appeals Again Sides With Dissent in FLRA Decision


 

CBO: Government Will Run Out of Money Next Spring Without Raising Debt Limit


 

The GOP Tax Bill Is Basically Like Throwing Gasoline On The Dumpster Fire That Is the Climate Crisis: The latest Republican scheme isn’t just bad news for the economy, it will be terrible for the environment.


 

A Newly Elected Democratic Socialist On How to Win in Trump Country: Ross Grooters explains how he won a city council seat as an open socialist in Pleasant Hill, Iowa—which last year went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.


 

The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”: A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.


 

Republicans still have a lot of differences between the House and Senate tax bills to hash out: The House and Senate now have to pass the same tax bill. Here’s where the two diverge.


 

Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up: A primer on the solidarity economy.


 

GOP may work next on welfare, Medicare, Social Security


 

After Sen. Collins implied AARP would back tax cuts, AARP fires back with a resounding 'NO!'


 

Cancer doctors make emergency trip to Washington, warn senators they're sentencing patients to death


 

Democracy got mugged in a DC alleyway tonight -  #TaxScamBill


 

7 Ways You Can Protect Yourself From Outrageous Medical Bills


 

Epidemic Of Health Care Waste: From $1,877 Ear Piercing To ICU Overuse


 

How The Loss Of U.S. Psychiatric Hospitals Led To A Mental Health Crisis


 

Nobel Economist Paul Krugman Just Declared War On Trump And the Entire Republican Party


 

Republican Senator Who Voted For Tax Bill Just Ejected A Terminally Ill Cancer Patient


 

Sen. Orrin Hatch sparks backlash after claiming there’s no money for children’s health plan


 

Why Didn’t We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy


 

Upton Sinclair is Dead and the Food Industry has the Trump Admin. Right Where It Wants It


 

Rural Communities Look to the Past to Defeat the Industrial Agriculture of the Present


 

Wisconsin Dairy Farmer to GOP: Your Estate Tax Claims Are Bogus


 

Minnesota Must Say “No” to Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline


 

A Big Farm Can Be Sustainable…But Only if It’s Managed Like a Collection of Small Farms


 

Ricketts wipes out automatic cost-of-living pay hikes


 

Open Letter to Ben Bernanke


 

Surprise! McConnell just broke all those promises Susan Collins got in exchange for her tax vote


 

Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC's 'Catastrophic' Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms: Open internet supporters are demanding that lawmakers answer a simple question: "Do you stand for your constituents' ability to communicate and connect, or do you stand for Verizon's bottom line?"


 

GOP bill would eliminate student loan forgiveness for public service


 

Dodd-Frank rollbacks put America at risk


 

Republicans Sought to Undercut an Unfavorable Analysis of the Tax Plan


 

“I Can’t Prove It to You, but I Know It’s True”: Jamie Dimon Puts His Faith in Trump’s Tax Plan.  America’s least hated banker on why he supports a supremely unpopular bill.


 

Republicans Just Revealed Gigantic Cuts For Medicare, Go Back On Promises To Seniors


 

States, schools brace for loss of federal funding for children’s health coverage


 

NC educators, activists prevent takeover of public schools by private charter operators


 

House GOP effort to overhaul Higher Education Act would harm poor and middle-class students


 

Another good reason to oppose the Senate GOP tax bill: ALEC supports it


 

A liberal-conservative alliance on the Supreme Court against digital surveillance


 

Trump’s FCC Is About to Bid Farewell to the Internet as We Know It: If, as expected, net neutrality is overturned next week, the internet will become more expensive and far less free.


 

These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote: A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People’s Alliance.


 

Dem lawmaker gives McConnell's tax reform op-ed a failing grade


 

Net neutrality: 'father of internet' joins tech leaders in condemning repeal plan.  Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee and other industry luminaries tell US lawmakers proposal to end safeguards is based on misunderstanding of internet


 

Jerry Brown: California saved its economy by doing the exact opposite of what the GOP wants


 

Senator Slips Secret Provision Into Tax Bill Giving Republican Senators Millions


 

Republican Senators Lock Office Doors, Refuse To Talk To Constituents About Tax Bill


 

Bankrolled by broadband donors, lawmakers lobby FCC on net neutrality: Watchdog decries politicians' claims that they "are acting in the public interest."


 

This Tax Bill Is a Trillion-Dollar Blunder: Congress and President Trump put politics ahead of smart reform.


 

Get covered for 2018: Start here (Deadline is 12/15/2017)


 

How the new tax bill encourages tax avoidance


 

Krugman succinctly nails it: Republicans despise the working class


 

Abbreviated pundit roundup: GOP tax bill gets even worse, net neutrality gutted and more


 

Small farmers who voted for Trump are suing him for taking away Obama-era protections


 

Corker’s last-minute ‘yes’ on GOP tax bill could be related to addition benefitting his businesses: report


 

Trump administration forbids CDC officials from using 7 words and phrases


 

Trump tells GOP he’d gut Social Security “on the first day of his second term”, Contrary to his campaign rhetoric

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