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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

By Mark | December 23, 2017

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 […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged #CorkerKickback, America Cares Act, Bob Corker, budget deficit, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, cruelty, Dianne Feinstein, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, FDR, health care, health insurance, 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

By Mark | November 19, 2017

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, America Cares Act, 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, 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

In a last ditch effort to satisfy their donors, Republicans attempt to kill the ACA and transfer billions of dollars to America’s super-rich by calling it a “middle class tax cut”

By Mark | November 14, 2017

Remember how, this past summer, we all came together, fought like hell, and killed the Republican health care plan that would have robbed some 22 million Americans of their coverage? Well, it looks like it’s time for us to get back in fighting shape, as the Republicans seem hellbent on pushing legislation through Congress before […]

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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 Chuck Schumer, corporate profits, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, infrastructure, National Infrastructure Bank, Robert Reich, tax amnesty, tax dodging, tax policy | 39 Comments

Could a Supreme Court decision against Obamacare lead to a public option?

By Mark | March 28, 2012

As you know, the Supreme Court has been hearing arguments this week on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, or what’s become known as Obamacare. Specifically, the Justices are considering whether or not the government can, in accordance with the Constitution, compel the citizens of the United States to purchase health insurance. The decision […]