Tag: tax scam
Big businesses promised wage hikes from Trump’s tax cuts. What actually...
The rich keep getting richer.
‘Greed has no limit for GOP:’ McConnell estate tax repeal would...
"At a time of record inequality, the very last thing we should do is line the pockets of the rich."
Another tax scam for the rich
It’s another big handout to the wealthy, another huge increase in the federal deficit, and it’s illegal.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Worker's wages fall, Federal judge orders government to seek consent before medicating migrant children, Bernie Sanders thanks the Koch brothers, and more.
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 GOP tax cuts are bad champagne for small business
But maybe, with our help, the next Congress will be up to the task of supporting small business, the real engine of growth in our economy.
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.
Corporations are spending their tax cut – on themselves
Instead of creating jobs, big businesses are using their tax cut bonanza to hike stock value and CEO pay.
Americans hate the tax bill because it wasn’t written for them
In today’s rigged political system, the special interests of a tiny minority trump the will of the great majority.
No, big corporations shouldn’t get tax breaks to create jobs
The breaks seldom pay for themselves — and put employees of local businesses out of work.
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$380 million in funding cuts to one of the most successful public education programs
“Every day, there’s yet another abuse.” The wanton attack on public schools is one of America’s biggest tragedies.
DHS warehouse jail plan signals historic expansion of immigration detention
Documents and reporting reveal a sweeping plan to convert warehouses and deploy military contracting to rapidly expand immigration jails across the United States.
Trump delivers lunch to Beijing
China is taking advantage of the fact that even the most even-tempered of allies have had it with Trump and his tantrums.
EPA reapproves drift-prone pesticide dicamba
This decision will allow farmers in 34 states to use the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, following a 2024 court ruling that had previously vacated its use.
Omar says ICE drawdown ‘not enough’ as thousands of agents remain deployed in Minnesota
After Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal immigration agents would leave Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar, civil rights groups, and national coalitions said the move leaves an ongoing occupation intact while killings, constitutional violations, and international human rights complaints remain unresolved.