While sold to the American people as a “middle class tax cut” that wouldn’t help the super-rich like Donald Trump, the tax reform legislation just passed by the Republicans is, in fact, a windfall for the rich that does considerably less for American’s middle class than the Obama stimulus package of 2009 did. Had the […]
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Republicans after adding over $1 trillion to our national debt to fund tax give-aways to the rich, say they can’t find $8 billion to extend health care for 8.9 million children living in poverty
Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged #CorkerKickback, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, cruelty, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, mandates, Medicaid, Medicare, middle class tax cuts, New Deal, Paul Ryan, poverty, Republican lies, rolling back the New Deal, social safety net, social security, stimulus, tax reform, tax scam, taxes, the top 1%, threats to the middle class, wealth inequality, welfare 8 Comments
The Republican tax plan puts graduate students, scientific research and the future of America in peril
As we’ve discussed, House Republicans have passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut that, if signed into law, would, among other things, take health care coverage from 13 million Americans and raise taxes on the middle class. You would think those two things alone would be enough to motivate people to call their elected officials and […]
Posted in Education, Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged academic research, American aristocracy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, anti-science, call to action, college tax credit, Donald Trump, Erin Rousseau, estate tax, free college tuition, health care reform, higher education, mandates, middle class, Obamacare, Orrin Hatch, research and development, Science, STEM, student debt, student loans, tax credits, tax cuts, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, those anti-science Republicans, threats to the middle class, Trumpcare, tuition 22 Comments
The final push to kill Obamacare is underway. We need to mobilize.
I know it sucks. I know we shouldn’t have to defend the America Cares Act again, after having successfully defeated repeal efforts several times already, but the Republicans have apparently reneged on their promise to move forward with a bipartisan process, instead opting to try one last time to repeal Obamacare outright, without debate, or […]