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Trump Left Biden A Crappy, Sluggish Economy... Despite GOP Sabotage, The Economy Looks Pretty Good
Yesterday, the Dow broke another record— up 56.81 points to 37,305.16, an indication of improved sentiments among investors, who are...
Howie Klein
Dec 16, 20235 min read
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Should Billionaires Who Refuse To Pay Their Fair Share Of Taxes Face An Automatic Capital Sentence?
Or Just Confiscation Of 100% Of Their Wealth? I pick Door #1. But I've never been squeamish about the death penalty for wealthy...
Howie Klein
Nov 5, 20236 min read
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Barbara Lee Introduced A Solid American Wealth Tax That Makes Sense
Extreme Wealth Inequality Isn't Compatible With A Healthy Democracy I usually like Elizabeth Warren’s ideas but when she brought up an...
Howie Klein
Sep 1, 202311 min read
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If You Pay Close Enough Attention The Republicans Will Always, Tell You What's Wrong With Them
I've Never Minded Paying Taxes-- I Love My Country Actually, I did mind paying taxes when I was a teenager. The War Against Vietnam was...
Howie Klein
Jul 25, 202313 min read
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What To Do About Student Debt-- There's A Progressive Approach & A Conservative Approach
Bernie & Pramila vs The Economic Royalists Oh, look, after consistently sabotaging Democrats’ efforts to solve the problem, Senate...
Howie Klein
Jun 16, 20236 min read
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Why Did So Many Progressives Vote Against Biden's Turd Sandwich?
As we saw earlier, 165 Democrats voted for the turd sandwich, including several respected progressive leaders, like Ilhan Omar (MN),...
Howie Klein
Jun 1, 20234 min read
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Billionaires And Democracies Are Incompatible-- It's Us Or Them
I think we can all agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist. I’m not necessarily advocating executions— just taxation... say the 1944...
Howie Klein
May 18, 20238 min read
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Republican Negotiators Have Rejected Closing Every Single Tax Loophole The Dems Have Suggested
It's Like The GOP Wants To Drive The Economy Over The Fiscal Cliff Among the loopholes built into the tax code specifically to allow...
Howie Klein
May 16, 20236 min read
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Crooked Politicians Trading Stocks-- Solid Bipartisanship
Lois Frankel, who’ll be 75 next week, represents a safe blue district— D+14 partisan lean— in Palm Beach County/ The district starts just...
Howie Klein
May 4, 20232 min read
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McCarthy's GOP Ransom Note To America
The Republican default is just a few months away— possibly in early June because of slower tax receipts. McCarthy was having some...
Howie Klein
Apr 27, 20237 min read
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There Were A Few Years That I Paid A Million Dollars In Taxes. I Felt So Proud To Be An American
Republicans Who Hate Our Country Are Anti-Tax When Georgia crackpot Buddy Carter introduced his bill to scrap the progressive tax code...
Howie Klein
Feb 8, 20237 min read
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How To Change American Politics For Real— A Guest Post By Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff is the congressman from my district. When I first met him, he was a state senator and the district was red. In 2000, in what...
Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20233 min read
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Ever Notice That People Who Want To Lower Taxes For The Rich, Want To Raise Them For The Non-Rich?
Earl “Buddy” Carter is a pharmacist representing a gerrymandered south Georgia congressional district, based on— and disenfranchising—...
Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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Which Is Worse-- The Profligate Republicans Or The Fiscally Conservative Democrats?
Yes All Of The Above-- The Remedy Is Democratic Socialism Last week, AOC sent an e-mail to her supporters responding to a question she...
Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20236 min read
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Elon Musk Is Carefully Turning Twitter Into A Free-For-All Hellscape
My Twitter following normally goes up by a dozen or two a day, especially at this time of the year right before an election. Since Musk...
Howie Klein
Nov 2, 20228 min read
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How Much Damage Can Elon Musk Do To America Before He's Stopped?
Yesterday, writing for Bloomberg, Jeannine Amodeo reported that Elon Musk had pledged, on a conference call with the 7 banksters, led...
Howie Klein
Oct 26, 20225 min read
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The Effects Of Inequality Are Both Worse And More Pervasive Than Is Generally Acknowledged
Grace Blakeley has an infuriating piece in the new Jacobin, Corporate Welfare Props Up the Billionaire Class. “The last year,” she wrote,...
Howie Klein
Oct 10, 20228 min read
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Corrupt Millionaire Coal Barron Doesn't Give A Damn If You Swelter
Yesterday Patriotic Millionaires went after Joe Manchin’s deceitful excuses for working with the GOP to sabotage the Democrats’ climate...
Howie Klein
Jul 20, 20224 min read
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Tearing Down Is A Lot Easier Than Building-- Just Ask The Republican Party Elites
BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! The Republicans are a conservative party. They just want to keep the status quo. Their reactionary wing wants to...
Howie Klein
Jul 6, 20226 min read
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Trump's Whole Life Has Been All About The Benjamins, So Why Doubt The The Big Lie Was As Well?
In his Washington Post column yesterday, Max Boot admitted he had low expectations for the select committee-- expectation he was delight...
Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20226 min read
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