The Alarming Growth Of Extreme Wealth & The Enabling Political Influence It Affords The Ultra-Rich
Billionaires Should Not Exist Last week, Erica Payne noted that “on March 18, 2020, there were 614 billionaires in the U.S. Just four...
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Howie Klein
Sep 234 min read
Should Billionaires Be Taxed Out Of Existence? Are You Willing To Vote For Candidates Who Agree?
Democracy Doesn't Function With Billionaires Several of the committees I serve on interviews candidates. And one is exclusively focused...
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Howie Klein
Sep 96 min read
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
Sep 82 min read
When Your Candidate Is Wrong On Crucial Policy, Will You Speak Up... Or Let It Slide 'til After Nov?
Preferential Tax Rates On Passive Income Is A GOP Idea— A Bad One It’s possible to push back on bad policy decisions coming out of the...
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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
Aug 99 min read
Is It Enough To Just Tax Billionaires Out Of Existence— Or Are Much Harsher Measures Called For?
How Would Louis Brandeis Have Dealt With Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk... Trump? Louis Brandeis— “the people’s lawyer”— spent...
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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 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
Jun 275 min read
Does Trump's Tax Agenda Prove That He's A Selfish Narcissist Just Out For Himself?
What About Biden's & The Dems' Accomplishments On That Front? Anything? If Dan Pfeiffer is right that Biden’s best message against Trump...
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Howie Klein
Jun 134 min read
Billionaires Shouldn't Exist— But Not Because We Need Their Money For Anything
The Only Need Is To Keep Them From Doing Harm With It Earlier today, in a discussion that began with the misuse of the word “moderate” as...
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Howie Klein
Apr 161 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! Are Billionaires Who Do Not Learn From History Doomed To Relive It?
by Noah "You all just got a lot richer" -Traitor Don Trump at a Mar-a-Lago celebration dinner for billionaires hours after signing the...
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Howie Klein
Apr 152 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! A Happy Tax Day To Non-Billionaires!
by Noah That's right, I'm not wishing a happy anything to billionaires. They can buy happiness, can't they? I mean, c'mon, if you can buy...
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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
Mar 278 min read
In Fairness-- How Much Should A Billionaire Like Musk Be Taxed? How Much Should He Be Left With?
Billionaires Are A Threat To Society— There Shouldn't Be Any "There Are No Benevolent Billionaires. There Are No Public-Minded...
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Howie Klein
Mar 99 min read
Billionaires Shouldn't Exist And There's A Nice Clean Way To Accomplish That; Fair Taxation
The Alternative Is Not Something Anyone Wants The billionaires had their panties all in a bunch Friday. Biden was so mean to them during...
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Howie Klein
Mar 24 min read
Voters Want The Rich To Pay Their Fair Share & Want A Gaza Ceasefire— But Congress Refuses To Budge
There's An Easy Solution To This (On Election Day) A new poll from Data For Progress released on the day millionaires and billionaires...
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Howie Klein
Feb 16 min read
"Everybody" Agrees: Tax The Rich... Except The Rich, Who Don't Even Agree That They Are Rich
The Rich Have The Financial Means To Buy Political Power There are a lot of things that Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida...
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Howie Klein
Jan 245 min read
When It Comes To Billionaires, What Does "Pay Their Fair Share" Mean To A Democratic Candidate?
I’m interviewing a lot of candidates this week, more than usual in just one week. They all agree that the super-rich should be “paying...
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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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