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Howie Klein
Dec 23, 20244 min read
In Congress, Not All The Bad Guys Are Republicans— The Dems Have Their Share Of Malefactors As Well
Remember Richie Neal Of Massachusetts? Pelosi, Rangel, Neal-- the joke has always been on us, trying to believe that the Democratic...
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Howie Klein
Dec 9, 20249 min read
How Much Will Co-President Musk Get Accomplished In Washington— And Who's Running His Companies?
How Independent Will Trump Allow Congress To Think It Is? I walked by a TV the other day and… what’s his name— that Ohio senator who was...
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Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20243 min read
Is The Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE Thing Destined To Fail Even Worse Than Twitter Has Since Musk Bought It?
Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney talked with Piers Morgan about the Musk-Ramaswamy DOGE efforts, which he thinks are doomed...
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Howie Klein
Dec 1, 20246 min read
What Will It Take For MAGA Mike To Get Trump's Tax Cuts For The Rich Through A Dysfunctional House?
Republicans Want To Cut Medicaid, Food Stamps & Climate Remediation Let’s start this morning— and this month— with 4 assumptions that...
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Noah
Nov 22, 20242 min read
Midnight Meme Of The Day! The Nazi Party's Trickle Up Tax Plans
The Curse Of Reagan Continues And Continues by Noah Those last four words of the above Mary Trump quote don't just apply to her uncle,...
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Howie Klein
Nov 19, 20244 min read
Even For Republicans, Cutting Medicaid & Food Stamps Is A Bad Look To Lower Taxes On The Top 1%
It matters almost not at all— unless you’re an undocumented migrant— what Trump campaigned on. Now we get to see which Project 2025...
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Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20246 min read
The Tremendous, Unsustainable Damage To Society By Billionaires— Who's To Blame? (Part II)
Reagan Didn't Invent Low Tax For The Rich All By Himself We finished the last post by noting that it wasn’t Trump or even Reagan who...
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Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20246 min read
Musk & Other Predatory Billionaires Are Doing Tremendous, Unsustainable Damage— We Need To Stop Them
All year, we’ve been advocating nationalizing Musk’s businesses, stripping him of his wealth and deporting him back to Africa. Some...
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Howie Klein
Nov 1, 20247 min read
Democrats Should Do Very Well On Tuesday— But Are Likely To Be Taken To The Cleaners In 2026
I’m very optimistic about Tuesday. I see Kamala winning the national popular vote plus swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and...
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Howie Klein
Oct 19, 202419 min read
Will Working Class Trump Voters Feel Badly When The Country Officially Becomes A Plutocracy?
How The Tech Billionaires Bought The GOP Running Mate Slot For JD Vance Eliminating billionaires— through tax policies, not violence— has...
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Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20245 min read
Trump Thinks His Insane Economic Policies Will Work Because He Was Good At Math In Elementary School
After the devastating Wall Street Journal report a couple days ago that pointed to an economic catastrophe if Trump’s plans are ever...
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Howie Klein
Oct 7, 20245 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...
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Protect Democracy
Oct 6, 20246 min read
Have We Finally Turned The Corner On The Neoliberal Consensus?
by Protect Democracy I’d like to start with a fairy tale. I call it, Repealing the Law of Gravity: Once upon a time in a distant land,...
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Howie Klein
Sep 23, 20244 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...
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Howie Klein
Sep 18, 20244 min read
Trump Puts Congressional Republican SALT Supporters In Another Awkward Position
When the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction was first voted on in the House— Nov 16, 2017 — every Democrat voted against it. Only 13...
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Howie Klein
Sep 8, 20242 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...
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Howie Klein
Aug 3, 20244 min read
Senate Republicans Kill House-Passed Bipartisan Tax Bill— Was It A Good Compromise To Begin With?
Trump and his allies have been working overtime to deny Biden any victories before the election. The big one everyone was talking about...
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Howie Klein
Jun 28, 20248 min read
Last Night We Saw What The Democratic Party Used To Look Like... Now Meet Ben Braver, The Future
After the debate debacle last night, I’m counting on Ben Braver to help save us from what may be coming. He’s a 21 year old progressive...
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Howie Klein
Jun 18, 202410 min read
Back In 2015 Trump Asked, On Television, “How Stupid Are The People Of Iowa?”
Yesterday a Des Moines Register poll seems to have finally and definitively answered that question. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary 800,983...
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Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20246 min read
Señor Trumpanzee’s Fabulous— Or Not So Fabulous— Trip To Washington, DC This Week
On Thursday, Trump returned to the scene of the crime for the first time since he was booted out of the White House, after his failed...
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