The Tremendous, Unsustainable Damage To Society By Billionaires— Who's To Blame? (Part II)
Reagan Didn't Invent Low Tax For The Rich All By Himself We finished the last post by noting that it wasn’t Trump or even Reagan who...
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Howie Klein
Nov 16 min read
Musk & Other Predatory Billionaires Are Doing Tremendous, Unsustainable Damage— We Need To Stop Them
All year, we’ve been advocating nationalizing Musk’s businesses, stripping him of his wealth and deporting him back to Africa. Some...
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Howie Klein
Nov 17 min read
Democrats Should Do Very Well On Tuesday— But Are Likely To Be Taken To The Cleaners In 2026
I’m very optimistic about Tuesday. I see Kamala winning the national popular vote plus swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and...
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Howie Klein
Oct 1919 min read
Will Working Class Trump Voters Feel Badly When The Country Officially Becomes A Plutocracy?
How The Tech Billionaires Bought The GOP Running Mate Slot For JD Vance Eliminating billionaires— through tax policies, not violence— has...
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Howie Klein
Oct 165 min read
Trump Thinks His Insane Economic Policies Will Work Because He Was Good At Math In Elementary School
After the devastating Wall Street Journal report a couple days ago that pointed to an economic catastrophe if Trump’s plans are ever...
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Howie Klein
Oct 75 min read
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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Protect Democracy
Oct 66 min read
Have We Finally Turned The Corner On The Neoliberal Consensus?
by Protect Democracy I’d like to start with a fairy tale. I call it, Repealing the Law of Gravity: Once upon a time in a distant land,...
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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 184 min read
Trump Puts Congressional Republican SALT Supporters In Another Awkward Position
When the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction was first voted on in the House— Nov 16, 2017 — every Democrat voted against it. Only 13...
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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 34 min read
Senate Republicans Kill House-Passed Bipartisan Tax Bill— Was It A Good Compromise To Begin With?
Trump and his allies have been working overtime to deny Biden any victories before the election. The big one everyone was talking about...
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Howie Klein
Jun 288 min read
Last Night We Saw What The Democratic Party Used To Look Like... Now Meet Ben Braver, The Future
After the debate debacle last night, I’m counting on Ben Braver to help save us from what may be coming. He’s a 21 year old progressive...
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Howie Klein
Jun 1810 min read
Back In 2015 Trump Asked, On Television, “How Stupid Are The People Of Iowa?”
Yesterday a Des Moines Register poll seems to have finally and definitively answered that question. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary 800,983...
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Howie Klein
Jun 156 min read
Señor Trumpanzee’s Fabulous— Or Not So Fabulous— Trip To Washington, DC This Week
On Thursday, Trump returned to the scene of the crime for the first time since he was booted out of the White House, after his failed...
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Howie Klein
May 196 min read
Economic Inequality In The United States: Not Just A Growing Divide— An Increasingly Dangerous One
Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of...
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Howie Klein
May 172 min read
Stephanie Kelton: “The National Debt Is Exactly The Opposite Of What The Orthodox Story Tells Us”
Last month I gave a talk about the economics of the Music Business at Stephanie Kelton’s interdisciplinary course at Stony Brook that...
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Howie Klein
May 137 min read
Battle For The Senate, 2024: Meet Bernie Moreno, Another Republican Who Cannot Speak Without Lying
Battleground Ohio Trump has promised an “upper class tax cut if he gets back into the White House. He can’t do that without a compliant...
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Howie Klein
May 124 min read
The Best Chance To Flip A Seat In Arizona From Red To Blue
Arizona’s first congressional district, entirely within Maricopa County, is one of the swing districts the Democrats are counting on to...
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Howie Klein
Apr 2818 min read
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Howie Klein
Mar 23 min read
The IRS Has Self Checkout Cashiers!— A Guest Post by Diane Young
Last month, Blue America endorsed Diane Young to replace Trump sycophant John James in the suburbs north of Detroit, basically southern...
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