“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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