Barbara Lee Introduced A Solid American Wealth Tax That Makes Sense
Extreme Wealth Inequality Isn't Compatible With A Healthy Democracy I usually like Elizabeth Warren’s ideas but when she brought up an...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 25
- 13 min
If You Pay Close Enough Attention The Republicans Will Always, Tell You What's Wrong With Them
I've Never Minded Paying Taxes-- I Love My Country Actually, I did mind paying taxes when I was a teenager. The War Against Vietnam was...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 16
- 6 min
What To Do About Student Debt-- There's A Progressive Approach & A Conservative Approach
Bernie & Pramila vs The Economic Royalists Oh, look, after consistently sabotaging Democrats’ efforts to solve the problem, Senate...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 1
- 4 min
Why Did So Many Progressives Vote Against Biden's Turd Sandwich?
As we saw earlier, 165 Democrats voted for the turd sandwich, including several respected progressive leaders, like Ilhan Omar (MN),...
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Howie Klein
- May 18
- 8 min
Billionaires And Democracies Are Incompatible-- It's Us Or Them
I think we can all agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist. I’m not necessarily advocating executions— just taxation... say the 1944...
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Howie Klein
- May 16
- 6 min
Republican Negotiators Have Rejected Closing Every Single Tax Loophole The Dems Have Suggested
It's Like The GOP Wants To Drive The Economy Over The Fiscal Cliff Among the loopholes built into the tax code specifically to allow...
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Howie Klein
- May 4
- 2 min
Crooked Politicians Trading Stocks-- Solid Bipartisanship
Lois Frankel, who’ll be 75 next week, represents a safe blue district— D+14 partisan lean— in Palm Beach County/ The district starts just...
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Howie Klein
- Apr 27
- 7 min
McCarthy's GOP Ransom Note To America
The Republican default is just a few months away— possibly in early June because of slower tax receipts. McCarthy was having some...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 8
- 7 min
There Were A Few Years That I Paid A Million Dollars In Taxes. I Felt So Proud To Be An American
Republicans Who Hate Our Country Are Anti-Tax When Georgia crackpot Buddy Carter introduced his bill to scrap the progressive tax code...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 1
- 3 min
How To Change American Politics For Real— A Guest Post By Adam Schiff
Adam Schiff is the congressman from my district. When I first met him, he was a state senator and the district was red. In 2000, in what...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Ever Notice That People Who Want To Lower Taxes For The Rich, Want To Raise Them For The Non-Rich?
Earl “Buddy” Carter is a pharmacist representing a gerrymandered south Georgia congressional district, based on— and disenfranchising—...
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Howie Klein
- Jan 16
- 6 min
Which Is Worse-- The Profligate Republicans Or The Fiscally Conservative Democrats?
Yes All Of The Above-- The Remedy Is Democratic Socialism Last week, AOC sent an e-mail to her supporters responding to a question she...
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Howie Klein
- Nov 2, 2022
- 8 min
Elon Musk Is Carefully Turning Twitter Into A Free-For-All Hellscape
My Twitter following normally goes up by a dozen or two a day, especially at this time of the year right before an election. Since Musk...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 26, 2022
- 5 min
How Much Damage Can Elon Musk Do To America Before He's Stopped?
Yesterday, writing for Bloomberg, Jeannine Amodeo reported that Elon Musk had pledged, on a conference call with the 7 banksters, led...
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Howie Klein
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
The Effects Of Inequality Are Both Worse And More Pervasive Than Is Generally Acknowledged
Grace Blakeley has an infuriating piece in the new Jacobin, Corporate Welfare Props Up the Billionaire Class. “The last year,” she wrote,...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
Corrupt Millionaire Coal Barron Doesn't Give A Damn If You Swelter
Yesterday Patriotic Millionaires went after Joe Manchin’s deceitful excuses for working with the GOP to sabotage the Democrats’ climate...
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Howie Klein
- Jul 6, 2022
- 6 min
Tearing Down Is A Lot Easier Than Building-- Just Ask The Republican Party Elites
BINGO! BINGO! BINGO! The Republicans are a conservative party. They just want to keep the status quo. Their reactionary wing wants to...
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Howie Klein
- Jun 15, 2022
- 6 min
Trump's Whole Life Has Been All About The Benjamins, So Why Doubt The The Big Lie Was As Well?
In his Washington Post column yesterday, Max Boot admitted he had low expectations for the select committee-- expectation he was delight...
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Howie Klein
- May 12, 2022
- 6 min
It’s Fear That Cripples The Democratic Party-- Fear Of Our Policies, Fear Of Who We Are...
"Somehow, in my lifetime, the Democrats have gone from being the party of the factory floor to the party of the faculty lounge." -Paul...
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Howie Klein
- Feb 11, 2022
- 3 min
Joe Manchin Is Always Out To Screw West Virginia Voters-- and The Rest Of Us Too
I hope that no one mistakes that statement by Manchin as something remotely progressive. It isn't. Voters overwhelmingly want the rich to...
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