The GOP’s New Plan to Enrich the Super-Rich… Again

Republicans are offering yet another sob story about the super-rich suffering unbearably from excessive taxation. Excellent news, people: Republican officials are mounting an all-out political push for a … Read more

This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Orange Squeal

This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Orange Squeal

What do you get when you combine cowardly-yellow with hate-red? Orange squeal! Our political landscape is being poisoned by agent orange. A guilty party leads the guile-tea party. … Read more

Mike Johnson’s First News Conference: Pledges Inaction

Mike Johnson’s First News Conference: Pledges Inaction

In first news conference, new House Speaker promises to do nothing at all unless the IRS stops harassing his rich friends. On Thursday, newly-minted House Speaker Mike Johnson … Read more

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and You: Which One Pays Taxes?

We now live in a Facebook-Instagram-Google world of billionaire ethics and expectations, where “only a fool” pays taxes. While Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “I have a … Read more

Doing the Tax Dodge Tap Dance

Doing the tax dodge tap dance is complicated, requiring sophisticated techniques and tricky maneuvers. Sen. Russell Long, the powerful Senate Finance Committee chair from 1966 to 1981 from … Read more

‘Tax the Rich’ Is No Longer Just a Political Slogan

We the People can choose a path that bends toward justice: 6 in 10 Americans favor Sen. Warren’s plan to tax the rich. There’s nothing inevitable about inequality. … Read more

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