Republicans insisted that Trump's $1.5 trillion tax aimed almost entirely at giant corporations and the ultra rich would not only pay for itself, but create a substantial windfall that would benefit all Americans. In fact, the entire reason the GOP has stood behind Trump ...read more
One of the most pervasive myths about poverty in right wing circles is that people who are unable to lift themselves out of it aren't working hard enough. Some of the most militant advocates of this philosophy are those who come from poor backgrounds themselves, and insist that ...read more
One of the tactics the right in America has perfected is art of smearing the left as being un patriotic wusses. When liberals question issues like guns, economic inequality, and immigration control, Republicans have learned to hurl as much abuse at them as possible for hating ...read more
Do you know what the Laffer Curve is? It’s a graph that represents the relationship between a given income tax rate and the government’s tax revenue. It would be the one set of data you absolutely needed before deciding to pass a multi-trillion dollar tax cut. Pulling the ...read more
One of the major failures of the Bush administration was FEMA's inability to adequately respond to Hurricane Katrina. Bush had made signifiant cuts to the organization before the storm hit and hired the woefully inept and deeply unqualified Michael Brown to head it. The ...read more
It's hard to put a positive spin on this given how destructive every sane economist believes the GOP's tax plan will be. Reported the New York Times on the plan that just passed in the Senate: Republicans took a critical step toward notching their first significant legislative ...read more
Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle invited 'Donald Trump for President' advisory board member Brad Thomas onto their MSNBC show today and gave the hapless business man one of the most savage dressing downs I've ever seen on live television. Thomas appeared to think that he could ...read more
Central to Donald Trump's ideology is that the American public can have its cake and eat it. They can get huge tax cuts and massive infrastructure spending. They can vote for a man who will reduce the federal government to rubble and still have amazing education, a great ...read more
Lost in the scramble to debate Donald Trump's latest remarks in which he accuses President Obama of being the founder of ISIS, there's another story quietly circulating today about Trump's attitude about his campaign's prospects for victory. Before we dig in, it's worth noting ...read more
