Tag Archives: Chuck Schumer

Now that we know the Russians played a role in getting Trump elected, what are we going to do about it?

By Mark | December 11, 2016

This past July, when we first discussed the possibility that Vladimir Putin might be using Russia’s vast security apparatus to get Trump elected, I think it’s safe to say that a good number of you saw it as yet another baseless conspiracy theory. And, in October, when Senator Harry Reid announced that U.S. security agencies […]

Posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged blackmail, CIA, DNC, election fraud, election tampering, espionage, Exxon, hacking, Jack Reed, John McCain, national security, Paris Accord, Rex Tillerson, RNC, Senate Committee on Armed Services, Sergei Ryabkov, Wikileaks | 209 Comments

Now, with just 19 days before the election, is not the time for Democrats to start talking about corporate tax cuts

By Mark | October 21, 2016

It’s being that Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, in an interview yesterday with CNBC’s John Harwood, said that one of his top two priorities next year, if he and the Democrats take back control of the Senate, would be to push for a tremendous corporate tax cut. The following comes by way of The Intercept. Speaking […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged corporate profits, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, infrastructure, mandates, National Infrastructure Bank, Robert Reich, tax amnesty, tax dodging, tax policy | 39 Comments

We need to come together the same way we did when we crushed SOPA, and pass the DISCLOSE Act on Monday

By Mark | July 14, 2012

As of right now, it looks as though the DISCLOSE Act is set to go before the Senate for a cloture vote on Monday afternoon. If you haven’t done so already, I’d appreciate it if you would join me in signing the petition now. And, if you have the time, it would great if you […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Franken, big oil, buying elections, Carl Levin, Chinese currency manipulation, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Crossroads GPS, Debbie Stabenow, Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act, disclose act, election reform, get the money out of Washington, Hardball, Karl Rove, Michael Smerconish, money as free speech, money in politics, Move to Amend, Ohio, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sherrod Brown, SOPA, Super PAC, too big to fail, transparency, Wall Street | 10 Comments

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

By Mark | April 16, 2012

I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bernie Sanders, Buffett Rule, class warfare, Coachella, Eric Cantor, holograms, income inequality, Jesus, Joint Committee on Taxation, Jon Kyl, Maine, Mitt Romney, national debt, payroll tax, progressive taxation, small government, small government Jesus, Susan Collins, tax loopholes, tax the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, Tupac, Warren Buffett | 26 Comments

Have we finally reached the tipping point on corporate personhood, and the role of corporations in influencing U.S. elections?

By Mark | November 6, 2011

I never got around to mentioning it last week, but Democratic Senators Tom Udall, Michael Bennet, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Jeff Merkely introduced a Constitutional amendment to reform campaign finance on Tuesday, which, if passed, would trump the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, which essentially made […]