Is Leonard Leo America's Real Public Enemy Number 1? More Than Elon Musk? More Than Señor T?
One Solution: Taxing Billionaires Out Of Existence This morning, Mica Soellner and Melanie Zanona reported that “Democrats hold a...
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Howie Klein
Aug 316 min read
Trump Has Been Running Around Screeching That Kamala Is Further Left Than Biden... & Even Bernie
The Billionaire Class Isn't Too Worried In her CNN interview Thursday, Kamala stood with Biden on all of his worst policies, like Gaza...
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Howie Klein
Jul 2010 min read
America Missed Out So, So Bad By Not Electing Bernie President
The Democratic Party’s Job Must Be The Economic Struggle My friends in Europe all say ‘who the hell is Kamala Harris— what about Bernie,...
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Howie Klein
Jul 175 min read
Billionaire Support For Trump Is Strictly Self-Serving— And Against America's Interests
You may have learned in high school that the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs (1930) caused the Great Depression. It’s not true. What is true though...
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Howie Klein
Jul 124 min read
Trump’s Pledge to Protect The Billionaire Class: A Threat To The Whole Concept Of Tax Fairness
Would You Like To See Giuliani Couch Surfing? Trump broke most of his 2016 campaign pledges when he was in the White House but if he gets...
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Howie Klein
Apr 126 min read
Do You Think America Needs A Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act? Bernie Does
This week, Patriotic Millionaires had its annual conference in DC. This thread has some of the highlights. Their message revolved around...
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Howie Klein
Nov 5, 20236 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Jul 25, 202313 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
May 16, 20236 min read
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...
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Howie Klein
Apr 2, 20235 min read
Despite Newsom & Neoliberals In The Legislature & Congress, L.A. Voters Decided How To Tax The Rich
The Mansion Tax Kicked In Yesterday Yesterday, I spoke with a mortgage broker friend of mine who told me that an L.A. celebratie is...
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Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20233 min read
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—...
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Howie Klein
Jul 13, 20226 min read
Gottheimer Mobilizing The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party Against Fair Taxes For The Rich
The title of Jonathan Chait’s column in New York Magazine today sounds like a DWT post: Josh Gottheimer Is on a Mission to Destroy Joe...
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Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20215 min read
80% Of Dems Want Lower Drug Prices-- So How Can PhRMA Pawns Like Case & Schrader Be Reelected?
On Wednesday, Andrew Perez and Julia Rock wrote about how a gaggle of corrupt corporate Dems rushed to the rescue of Big PhRMA, while...
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Howie Klein
Nov 18, 20214 min read
Many Voters No Longer See The Democrats As Even The Lesser Evil
Jared Golden (Blue Dog-ME), is a confused conservative, a former employee of Susan Collin's office who became a pro-labor Democratic...
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Howie Klein
Oct 27, 20216 min read
The Billionaires Don't Even Want To Pay For Build Back Worse. Should They Be Guillotined?
Yesterday all we heard about Build Back Better was two things-- a- yes, it's gutted and hardly worth all the bad p.r. that it engendered...
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Howie Klein
Oct 21, 20215 min read
Psycho-Sinema-- Worse Than Manchin
When this whole reconciliation mess began, I noted-- a thousand times-- that the real problem in the end wouldn't be Manchin, who the...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20217 min read
The Two-fer Manchin Hates: Tax Fairness And Climate Crisis Amelioration
Not counting a tiny handful of corrupt conservatives like Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin in the Senate and Josh Gottheimer, Lou Correa...
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