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Luxury For Me, Austerity For Thee: Let Them Eat Pickleball, The Tim Sheehy Story
Medicaid And SNAP Cuts From the Mansion On The Lake Yesterday Tim Sheehy (R-MT) voted to cut Medicaid and food stamps so that...

Howie Klein
Jun 293 min read


A New Deal For The Working Class: Emily Berge’s Progressive Vision For Wisconsin And Beyond
(l-->r) Eau Claire City Council President Emily Berge, US Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Blue Dog congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke Emily...

Howie Klein
Jun 283 min read


Should We Be Building A Strong, Healthy, Egalitarian Society— Or An American Aristocracy?
Conservatives have been trying to get rid of inheritance taxes since they were first proposed and with Trump and a Republican Congress...

Howie Klein
Jun 225 min read


Most Americans Don't Like Either Party... Bernie Has A Suggestion That Will Change That Quickly
We Need A National Debate: Should The Top Marginal Rate Be 93% or 99%? Neither Gavin Newsom nor Kamala Harris dared show up at the...

Howie Klein
Jun 24 min read


Progressives Believe in Taxing Wealth Instead Of Work— Meet Lehigh County Controller Mark Pinsley
Susan Wild, a member of the New Dems, was elected to represent PA-07 in 2018. Last year she was narrowly defeated by conservative...
Mark Pinsley
Jun 212 min read


Henry George's Ahead-Of-Its-Time 1879 Suggestion That We Tax Wealth, Not Work— Part II
OK, back to Henry George’s once-revolutionary idea of taxing wealth— in the form of land when he wrote the best-selling Progress and...

Howie Klein
May 296 min read


Republicans Raising Taxes On Multimillionaires? Despite Trump's Gaslighting, Don't Hold Your Breath
Which do you believe— that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich or that Trump wants to be seen as someone who made a valiant attempt...

Howie Klein
May 94 min read


Let's Get Ready For Something Good From Congress— The Cost Of Living Tax Cut Act
There’s a bit of a buzz in Congress about a prospective bill that hasn’t been introduced yet. Members are passing it around and the...

Howie Klein
Mar 223 min read


The GOP Has Always Wanted To Wipe Out Progressive Taxation... And Now They're Doing Just That
Last week, the NY Times ran a piece by Andrew Duehren, Stalled Audits and a Skeleton Staff: Inside Trump’s War on the IRS , about how...

Howie Klein
Mar 164 min read


Unlike Republican Voters, Republicans In Congress Want Lower Tax Rates For The Very Wealthy
Will GOP "Moderates" Stand Up For Working Class Constituents? Most Americans want these 3 bums to pay a lot more in taxes Polling has...

Howie Klein
Feb 177 min read


The Alarming Growth Of Extreme Wealth & The Enabling Political Influence It Affords The Ultra-Rich
Billionaires Should Not Exist Last week, Erica Payne noted that “on March 18, 2020, there were 614 billionaires in the U.S. Just four...

Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20245 min read


Should Billionaires Be Taxed Out Of Existence? Are You Willing To Vote For Candidates Who Agree?
Democracy Doesn't Function With Billionaires Several of the committees I serve on interviews candidates. And one is exclusively focused...

Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20244 min read


Is Leonard Leo America's Real Public Enemy Number 1? More Than Elon Musk? More Than Señor T?
One Solution: Taxing Billionaires Out Of Existence This morning, Mica Soellner and Melanie Zanona reported that “Democrats hold a...

Howie Klein
Sep 9, 20246 min read


When Your Candidate Is Wrong On Crucial Policy, Will You Speak Up... Or Let It Slide 'til After Nov?
Preferential Tax Rates On Passive Income Is A GOP Idea— A Bad One It’s possible to push back on bad policy decisions coming out of the...

Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20242 min read


Trump Has Been Running Around Screeching That Kamala Is Further Left Than Biden... & Even Bernie
The Billionaire Class Isn't Too Worried In her CNN interview Thursday, Kamala stood with Biden on all of his worst policies, like Gaza...

Howie Klein
Aug 31, 20246 min read


Is It Enough To Just Tax Billionaires Out Of Existence— Or Are Much Harsher Measures Called For?
How Would Louis Brandeis Have Dealt With Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk... Trump? Louis Brandeis— “the people’s lawyer”— spent...

Howie Klein
Aug 9, 20249 min read


America Missed Out So, So Bad By Not Electing Bernie President
The Democratic Party’s Job Must Be The Economic Struggle My friends in Europe all say ‘who the hell is Kamala Harris— what about Bernie,...

Howie Klein
Jul 20, 202410 min read


Trump’s Pledge to Protect The Billionaire Class: A Threat To The Whole Concept Of Tax Fairness
Would You Like To See Giuliani Couch Surfing? Trump broke most of his 2016 campaign pledges when he was in the White House but if he gets...

Howie Klein
Jul 12, 20244 min read


Does Trump's Tax Agenda Prove That He's A Selfish Narcissist Just Out For Himself?
What About Biden's & The Dems' Accomplishments On That Front? Anything? If Dan Pfeiffer is right that Biden’s best message against Trump...

Howie Klein
Jun 27, 20245 min read


Billionaires Shouldn't Exist— But Not Because We Need Their Money For Anything
The Only Need Is To Keep Them From Doing Harm With It Earlier today, in a discussion that began with the misuse of the word “moderate” as...

Howie Klein
Jun 13, 20244 min read
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