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Biden Blasts Trump For Promising Tax Cuts To Billionaires
Trump promised billionaires low taxes at his behind closed doors fundraiser and the Biden campaign unloaded on the ex-president.
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Trump Implodes And Admits He’s Planning Even Bigger Tax Cuts For Corporations
During a Fox News interview, Trump admitted that he plans to double down on his economy killing corporate tax cuts and make them bigger.
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Opinion: House Resolution Denouncing Socialism Distracts from GOP’s Real Authoritarian Agenda
When one starts to put two and two together, it starts to sound like this kind of “anti-socialist†ideology is the problem, trying to fool Americans into being afraid of real political and economic democracy.
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Opinion: “Anti-Government†GOP Actually Wants Big Government Against The People
This is a form of government not of, by and for the people, but one against the people. This is the government the Republican Party, the Supreme Court it built, and Trump are delivering.
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Opinion: Media’s Inflation Coverage Obscures Promise of Biden’s Policies to Promote Real Economic Democracy
Media coverage blinds us to the fact that Biden’s Build Back Better plan contained the very policies that promise to move the U.S. economy in a more democratic direction and to address in fundamental ways economic inequality and the high costs of living Americans face.
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Opinion: Will Inflation Worries Push Americans Toward Authoritarianism to Economic Detriment?
The surest way to secure a strong economy that works for the majority of Americans is to support—and vote—for democracy, not right-wing autocracy,
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Opinion: Big Lie of Stolen Election Obscures Cheney’s Bigger Longstanding Lie
Trumpism, in fact, has provided a fortuitous opening for the Republican Party establishment to salvage its own perfidious conservatism by providing a kind of straw man for the establishment.
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Opinion: Why The Coronavirus Is Not An Excuse For Trump’s Failing Economy
The narrative Trump and his Republican allies have been weaving about his managing of the U.S. economy is that he had presided over, if not himself built, the strongest economy in the nation’s history and that it was only slowed by the coronavirus outbreak, which was not his fault. He can’t be held responsible for…
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Joe Biden Says Trump Is Focused on the Stock Market: “Not You. Not Your Families”
Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump of surrendering to the Coronavirus and being more concerned with stock prices than Americans’ lives. The presumptive Democratic nominee pledged to help working families. The former Vice President gave a speech on his economic plans in Pennsylvania on Thursday but took the opportunity to criticize the President for his…
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Opinion: Greed versus Need: Coronavirus Only Magnifies Ongoing Struggle over American Morality Tale
The inspirational mantras we hear multiple times a day remind us repeatedly that “we’re all in this together†and “we’ll get through this together.†It’s such a powerful and commonplace expression these days, seemingly rolling off the tongues of every commentator, commercial spokesperson, and social media user, that one would almost think Hillary Clinton had,…
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Coronavirus Highlights Dangers of Trump’s Destruction of the U.S. Public Sphere
It’s easy to sell people on lower taxes and to encourage people to hate paying taxes. Few politicians, even those who promise to provide health care, better public education, student debt relief, and so on, rarely explain in detail what Americans are getting in return for the investments their taxes fund or the bills they…
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Opinion: Pence Admits to Trump’s Failing and Fraudulent Economic Policies
In his State of the Union address earlier this month, President Trump celebrated the putative success of the economy he claims to have built, doing so in historic terms: “I am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been,†he boasted. And yet, at the same time,…
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Opinion: American Lives Depend on Telling True Story of Trump’s Life-Destroying Economy
What is the story of the U.S. economy? Not unlike the proverbial elephant subject to scrutiny by a band of blind men, the nation’s economy is subject to multiple narrative descriptions depending on which component of the beast, whether our economy or an elephant, the blind man massages. Some media pundits have argued that the…
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As Wealth Tax Debate Heats Up, What Does it Mean to Invest in America?
Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal has certainly sparked debates not just about basic questions of fairness, of morality, but also about the economic effectiveness and very meaning of taxation. The debate raises the question of what it means to invest in America. Beto O’Rourke, in the last debate, jumped on the Warren-bashing bandwagon, accusing Warren’s…
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Study Shows Trump’s Tax Cut For The Rich Had No Positive Impact On Jobs
A new study reveals that Trump’s tax cuts for the rich provided no positive impact on jobs in the United States.
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Democrats Must Resist Recession Narrative and Critique Narrative of Trump’s Economic Success
This week’s stock market antics and the occurrence of an inverted yield curve have provided compelling evidence portending another economic recession. These economic indicators, in addition to spurring stock sell-offs and turbulent market volatility, also sparked a firestorm of debate and commentary regarding how a potential recession would impact Trump’s 2020 re-election bid. The word…
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To Whom is Trump Listening? Not American Workers or Corporations
Despite the fact that Donald Trump wooed disgruntled working-class Americans with promises to protect and even create well-paying jobs, it’s not hard to see that these promises were empty and that he’s been no advocate for the American worker.
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Why Democrats Must Make Trump Economy Key Issue in 2020
Recently Republican Congressman Sean Duffy from Wisconsin, in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, framed the looming prospect of Donald Trump’s impeachment as ridiculous. His reason? The economy is supposedly booming. He told Hayes, “They have higher wages, lower unemployment. We’re killing it in Wisconsin. You want to impeach that guy?†Hayes, of course, challenged…
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What the U.S.’s Largest-Ever Monthly Budget Deficit Means for Americans in the Trump Economy
In short, Trump’s policies aren’t helping, and the prospects aren’t looking good.
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Trump’s education cuts show it’s not the economy, stupid; it’s just mean stupidity
Remember President Donald Trump’s State of the Union addresses last February and in particular in January 2018 amid a wave of teachers’ strikes? Can you recall the talking points he elaborated on the need to support public education? No? Well, that’s because since taking office he’s uttered barely a word about our at-risk public education…
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Marco Rubio Admits Workers Are Getting Screwed By Trump Tax Cuts
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) admitted in an interview that there is no sign that workers are getting any of the benefits from the GOP/Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
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Watch As An Out Of It Trump Can Barely Read His Cabinet Meeting Script On Tax Cuts
A heavily scripted Donald Trump could barely read the words placed in front of him as he tried to tout his tax cuts for the rich before a cabinet meeting.
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Trump Tax Cuts For The Rich Looking Doomed As GOP Senator Won’t Support It If It Adds To Deficit
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) became the first Republican to back away from the deficit exploding Republican plan to cut taxes for the wealthy by telling Meet The Press that he won’t vote for it if the plan adds to the deficit.
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Republicans Are Already Abandoning Trump’s Tax Plan As Things Get Worse For The GOP
Republicans are coming out against Trump’s tax plan, as the party of low taxes is looking increasingly unlikely to pass a tax cut.
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MSNBC Gave Trump A Devastating Katrina Moment As He Talks Tax Cuts While Texans Drown
While Trump was pitching his tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, MSNBC split their screen and showed people being rescued from the hurricane caused flooding in Texas.
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Gov. Jay Inslee: Obamacare Repeal is ‘a Piggy Bank to Give Tax-Cuts to the Wealthy’
“I think that when you get into an airplane and you look at the cockpit and you see the pilot saying ‘boy, look at all these gauges this is really complicated,’ you know you have a problem.”
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Trump, Who Has Declared Bankruptcy 6 Times, Promises To Clean Up The Nation’s Finances
Donald Trump, who has declared bankruptcy six times, is threatening America by promising to clean up the nation’s finances.
