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Sen. Ron Johnson Loses Votes In Wisconsin By Defending Tax Cuts For The Rich
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) claimed that he was cutting taxes for the many when he voted to cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations.
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WATCH: Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire Panel Calls For Taxes to be Raised on the Poor
Donald Trump was not a traditional President in any sense. He did, however, do one thing that was very traditionally Republican. He gave the richest people in the country a massive tax break. Like Ronald Reagan and the Bush‘s before him, Trump said that benefiting the wealthiest people would grow the economy. Time and time…
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WATCH: Fox’s Bartiromo Argues The Best Way to Stimulate the Economy is More Tax Cuts For the Wealthy
Donald Trump was unlike any politician that America had ever seen. When he took office, though, he made a move that was very traditionally Republican. Trump passed a major tax cut for the wealthy. Like Ronald Reagan and the Bushes before him, Trump said that the cuts would stimulate the economy and benefit the average…
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White House Economic Adviser: Trump Should Declare a “National Economic Emergency”
A White House economic adviser has called on Donald Trump to declare a national emergency because of the Coronavirus and stop collecting payroll taxes. Stephen Moore co-authored an op-ed in Sunday’s Wall Street Journal calling for radical and apparently unilateral action to shore up the struggling U.S. economy. “Last week Mr. Trump acknowledged that compromising with Speaker…
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Trump Is Demanding Tax Cuts As Coronavirus Deaths Double
US coronavirus deaths have doubled in the last three days, and Donald Trump is responding by demanding tax cuts for restaurants and entertainment.
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New Study Shows Rich CEO’s Are Buying the Republican Party
Make no mistake, rich people love the GOP — and their tax cuts. According to a new study reported by Axios this morning, super-rich CEO’s of big corporations have been flooding the Republican Party with contributions. They want to keep their tax breaks coming, even as the United States faces record budget deficits, and possible…
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The Koch Brothers Are Spending $20 Million to Convince Voters on GOP Tax Bill
Because just 39 percent of poll respondents had a favorable view of the Trump/Republican tax cut bill in an April Gallup poll, the GOP’s biggest billionaire mega-donors are spending $20 million in a new effort to convince more people that they should like the tax law change which gives unneeded tax breaks to billionaires while exploding the…
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Ryan, McConnell Fight As GOP Election Strategy Crashes
Republicans are fighting among themselves again in the U.S. Congress, and this is a bad sign for their chances in November’s midterm elections. Speaker of the House Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) is pushing hard to get another misguided and harmful tax cut passed in the next few months. For some reason he thinks this will…
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Chuck Grassley Says Working Class People Don’t Deserve Tax Cuts Because They Spend Their Money On Booze And Women
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) suggested that rich people deserve tax cuts more than working class people because working class people spend all of their money on booze, women, or movies.
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Right-Wing Christians Place Party Before Faith Forsaking Compassion For Their Neighbor
It doesn’t matter what the issue is. Right-wing Christians have been placing the priorities of the party before the tenants of the faith for decades. However, now they are reaching ever new extremes, emboldened by Donald Trump’s presidency and Republican control of Congress.
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Republicans Terror Grows Over Democrats Potentially Winning Congress In 2018
Warnings are growing among Republicans that the battle over tax cuts for the wealthy could cost them Congress next year if they are unable to pass a cut for the wealthiest Americans.
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Now That GOP Failed to Cut Taxes for Rich, They’re Going to Cut Taxes for Rich
“Republicans set to pivot from cutting taxes for the rich (AHCA) to cutting taxes for the rich (tax reform).” and tax cuts is like handing out candy
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Sean Spicer Admits That Trump Is Taking Away Health Care To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich
During his daily briefing at the White House, Press Secretary Sean Spicer admitted that Trump’s wants to cut health care first so that he can maximize tax cuts for the wealthy in 2018.
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Millions Of Middle-Class Families Will See Tax Increases Under The Trump Plan
Spoiler alert: The richest 1 percent of Americans would benefit most from Trump’s proposal.
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As The Kansas Economy Dies, Trump Appoints Gov. Sam Brownback As Advisor
In a normal political environment, a national candidate seeking a model of what their proposed policies would produce would certainly choose a winner. However, this is no more a normal political environment than an elephant is quantum-sized, and the state of Kansas is no more an economic winner than Donald Trump is a quiet and thoughtful deep thinker.
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Paul Krugman Explains What Drives GOP Establishment Support of Trump
Republicans don’t care about shunning racism, preserving democracy and religious freedom or avoiding nuclear war because they support Trump.
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Billions of Dollars in the Red, Louisiana Has Been Destroyed by Bobby Jindal
Starting a new job can be an exhilarating experience, especially when that new position is at the wishes and consent of millions of voters. However, for Louisiana’s new governor, John Bel Edwards (D), whatever exhilaration might exist at being chosen to run the state likely turned to fright and despair when he realized just how…
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Krugman: Trump Distracts From the GOP Pledge To Double Down On W. Bush Policies
Krugman says the GOP establishment is determined “to take whatever didn’t work from 2001 to 2008 and do it again in a more extreme form”
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More Studies Prove The Economy Always Does Better When A Democrat Is President
“The two Democratic presidents have produced jobs at 7 times the rate of the two Bushes or 2.1 million versus 300,000 per year.”
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President Obama’s Fiscal Discipline Cuts the Federal Deficit Below The 50-Year Average
If Americans need an example of true fiscal responsibility, they can look at the state of the economy under a fiscally responsible Democrat, President Barack Obama.
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Democrats Found Their Identity Too Late To Help President Obama’s Agenda
If Democrats had proposed any of their current populist plans last year, Republicans would have went into the midterm elections defending their religious allegiance to the richest one-percent of income earners and their highly-profitable corporations.
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Despite Obama’s National Economic Success Republican State Economies Are Failing
Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is “the party of solutions” founded on conservative pro-growth economic policies, deregulation, and tax cuts for the rich they claimed were more successful than anything “hapless” Democrats or Obama could ever hope to achieve. This is despite the President’s nearly five-year job growth record, world-leading GDP growth, and increased revenue paying down the nation’s debt at a record pace.
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2nd Court Slams Brownback For Underfunding Education To Expedite Kochs’ Tax Cuts
Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, Americans should brace themselves for a serious Koch-style assault on revenue and government agencies. Last year, Mitch McConnell told Kansas Governor Sam Brownback that Republicans were panting to enact a Koch-Kansas economic assault on America that Brownback imposed by giving the rich monumental tax breaks at…
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Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs
Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back to Bush-era economics and undo the economic progress of the past six years.
Republicans Are Unhinged and Terrified of Good Economic Reports
Despite their Herculean efforts to bankrupt America though, another report this week revealed the economy is on the mend despite the GOP plot to obstruct the new President’s attempt to turn around the economic disaster eight years of Republicans’ drunken spending spree on the nation’s credit card.
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Sam Brownback Insults Kansas Voters By Treating Them Like They Are Gullible and Stupid
It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters’ stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the stupidest people in the nation
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Missouri GOP Shows a Special Degree of Stupid By Passing Kansas’ Worst Tax Cuts In the Country
Missouri Republicans are stupider than congressional Republicans because they carefully studied Kansas Republicans’ economic policies that created a budget nightmare for the state and its people.
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A Presidents’ Day Examination Of the Monumental Hurdles that President Obama Has Overcome
Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President and recognize the monumental hurdles he cleared while battling Republicans who made destroying his presidency and the nation’s economy their sole reason for serving in Congress.
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Obama Proven Right as CBO Finds GOP Backed Spending Cuts Don’t Reduce Debt
The CBO reported that the nation’s debt is $231 billion less than last year, and they highlighted the fact the declining debt is entirely due to increased revenue and not Republican spending cuts.
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Republicans Are Once Again Trying to Hold The Economy Hostage Over Christmas
This Christmas is shaping up like every other year’s end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding the economy hostage over the level of damage they can inflict.
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Republicans Claim Cutting Taxes on the Rich Will Lower Gas Prices
Republicans like Mitch McConnell are pushing the idea that if America lowers taxes on the wealthy and corporations, the price of gas will fall.
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Obama Dares Republicans To Test His Willingness to Fight
President Obama held a press conference to defend the compromise that he reached with the Republicans on a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts in exchange for a long term extension of unemployment benefits. In response to critics of the deal, the President dared Republicans to test his willingness to fight, “I will be happy to see the Republicans test whether or not I’m itching for a fight on a whole range of issues. I suspect they will find I am.”
