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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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.