Tag: rich
Trump administration attempts to tweak capital gains tax only to benefit...
But tax analysts said the proposed tweak would create more tax shelters and increase national debt.
Infographic: Why normal people can’t afford a house
The U.S. is better at subsidizing wealthy people than low-income people.
The taking of Millennial wealth by rich white Boomers
A booming economy? Yes, for the richest 10 percent, who took 85 percent of the new wealth.
Goons in Gucci
The richest, most powerful, most privileged people in our land are intentionally savaging the well-being of America's majority and aggressively suppressing the democratic rights that make America, America.
Today’s Poor People’s Campaign: Too important not to criticize
Provided, of course, today’s PPC attacks the bipartisan disease.
The kindly 87-year-old man who took all the school kids’ lunch...
There seems to be no corporate recognition of the shameful act of taking decades of societal largesse and then doing everything possible to avoid paying for any of it.
The financial hardships of Trump’s friends
Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich – already richer than ever – whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.
Mnuchin flips tax-scam grift, hopes nobody notices
He and his cronies are on track to win twice – with tax cuts and stock payouts that benefit the wealthiest among us – while most Americans are destined to lose.
Patience and secrecy in the Kochs’ complex conspiracy
The Kochs have taken the long view with their ideological power grab.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America