Tag: trickle-down economics
Harris breaks with Biden on capital gains tax based on ‘failed...
Speaking to supporters, Harris emphasized the importance of supporting investment in small businesses and innovation while ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share.
Does trickle-down economics actually work?
Making big corporations and the rich even richer through tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks doesn’t make the rest of us better off.
Trickle-down economics doesn’t work but build-up does—is Biden listening?
Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. The benefits of build-up economics are real.
How Trump’s war on regulation is trickle-down economics
Trump’s attack on regulation is just another form of trickle-down economics – where the gains go the top, and the risks and losses trickle down.
Why making American corporations more competitive doesn’t help most Americans
Restoring corporations' “competitive edge” has little or nothing to do with helping American workers.
What is the true cost of inequality?
Americans, in effect, are each paying what amounts to an “inequality tax.”
Trump’s trickle-down populism
Trickle-down economics dressed in populist garb is still trickle-down economics.
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The real evil empire may surprise you
Serving in (or thinking about) the U.S. military for 40 years.
One in ten Americans lives in a sinking city, new study finds
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure, flood safety, and climate resilience.
Millions would lose Medicaid under GOP cuts, says new CBO report
A nonpartisan analysis shows Republican efforts to slash Medicaid by $880 billion would strip healthcare from millions of low-income Americans in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?
Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans
Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.