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Let's Get Ready For Something Good From Congress— The Cost Of Living Tax Cut Act
There’s a bit of a buzz in Congress about a prospective bill that hasn’t been introduced yet. Members are passing it around and the...
Howie Klein
3 days ago3 min read
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The GOP Has Always Wanted To Wipe Out Progressive Taxation... And Now They're Doing Just That
Last week, the NY Times  ran a piece by Andrew Duehren, Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the IRS , about how...
Howie Klein
Mar 164 min read
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Trump, Musk & The Billionaire War On Taxes: How The Rich Are Dismantling The IRS To Rob Us Blind
If there’s one thing Trump and his billionaire backers hate more than democracy, it’s paying taxes. The news that Trump and Musk are...
Howie Klein
Feb 213 min read
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Unlike Republican Voters, Republicans In Congress Want Lower Tax Rates For The Very Wealthy
Will GOP "Moderates" Stand Up For Working Class Constituents? Most Americans want these 3 bums to pay a lot more in taxes Polling has...
Howie Klein
Feb 177 min read
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In Congress, Not All The Bad Guys Are Republicans— The Dems Have Their Share Of Malefactors As Well
Remember Richie Neal Of Massachusetts? Pelosi, Rangel, Neal-- the joke has always been on us, trying to believe that the Democratic...
Howie Klein
Dec 23, 20244 min read
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How Much Will Co-President Musk Get Accomplished In Washington— And Who's Running His Companies?
How Independent Will Trump Allow Congress To Think It Is? I walked by a TV the other day and… what’s his name— that Ohio senator who was...
Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20249 min read
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Is The Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE Thing Destined To Fail Even Worse Than Twitter Has Since Musk Bought It?
Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney talked with Piers Morgan about the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE efforts, which he thinks are doomed...
Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20243 min read
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What Will It Take For MAGA Mike To Get Trump's Tax Cuts For The Rich Through A Dysfunctional House?
Republicans Want To Cut Medicaid, Food Stamps & Climate Remediation Let’s start this morning— and this month— with 4 assumptions that...
Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20246 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! The Nazi Party's Trickle Up Tax Plans
The Curse Of Reagan Continues And Continues  by Noah Those last four words of the above Mary Trump quote don't just apply to her uncle,...
Noah
Nov 22, 20242 min read
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Even For Republicans, Cutting Medicaid & Food Stamps Is A Bad Look To Lower Taxes On The Top 1%
It matters almost not at all— unless you’re an undocumented migrant— what Trump campaigned on. Now we get to see which Project 2025...
Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20246 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20246 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20247 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 19, 202419 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20245 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20245 min read
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Have We Finally Turned The Corner On The Neoliberal Consensus? Â
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,...
Protect Democracy
Oct 6, 20246 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 18, 20244 min read
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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...
Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20242 min read
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