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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...

Howie Klein
Sep 18, 20244 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


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...

Howie Klein
Aug 3, 20244 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...

Howie Klein
Jun 28, 20248 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...

Howie Klein
Jun 18, 202410 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...

Howie Klein
Jun 15, 20246 min read


Economic Inequality In The United States: Not Just A Growing Divide— An Increasingly Dangerous One
Sometimes I just feel like remembering why I blog at DWT. And in the end, it always comes down to economic inequality and how it’s one of...

Howie Klein
May 19, 20246 min read


Stephanie Kelton: “The National Debt Is Exactly The Opposite Of What The Orthodox Story Tells Us”
Last month I gave a talk about the economics of the Music Business at Stephanie Kelton’s interdisciplinary course at Stony Brook that...

Howie Klein
May 17, 20242 min read


Battle For The Senate, 2024: Meet Bernie Moreno, Another Republican Who Cannot Speak Without Lying
Battleground Ohio Trump has promised an “upper class tax cut if he gets back into the White House. He can’t do that without a compliant...

Howie Klein
May 13, 20247 min read


The Best Chance To Flip A Seat In Arizona From Red To Blue
Arizona’s first congressional district, entirely within Maricopa County, is one of the swing districts the Democrats are counting on to...

Howie Klein
May 12, 20244 min read



Howie Klein
Apr 28, 202418 min read


The IRS Has Self Checkout Cashiers!— A Guest Post by Diane Young
Last month, Blue America endorsed Diane Young to replace Trump sycophant John James in the suburbs north of Detroit, basically southern...

Howie Klein
Mar 2, 20243 min read


Obstructionist Republicans Are Trying To Sabotage The Economy So Trump Can Run On Despair
Last night, the House passed, overwhelmingly, a bipartisan tax bill 357-70. The opposition was from 23 progressives who didn’t like the...

Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20245 min read


"Everybody" Agrees: Tax The Rich... Except The Rich, Who Don't Even Agree That They Are Rich
The Rich Have The Financial Means To Buy Political Power There are a lot of things that Barbara Lee (D-CA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Rashida...

Howie Klein
Feb 1, 20246 min read


When It Comes To Billionaires, What Does "Pay Their Fair Share" Mean To A Democratic Candidate?
I’m interviewing a lot of candidates this week, more than usual in just one week. They all agree that the super-rich should be “paying...

Howie Klein
Jan 24, 20245 min read


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...

Howie Klein
May 18, 20238 min read


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...

Howie Klein
May 16, 20236 min read


For Real, How Much Of An Enemy Of Americans Are Republicans And Other Conservatives?
Yesterday, on Fox News Sunday, Byron Donalds— a former illegal drug kingpin, banker robber and bribery felon— accused Biden of “leading...

Howie Klein
May 15, 202311 min read


Republican Policies Are More And More Frequently Hurting Republican Voters
I hope this doesn’t come off too much like victim-blaming but Columbiana County, Ohio— home of the East Palestine railroad disaster— is a...

Howie Klein
Feb 17, 20238 min read


The GOP Plan For A 30% National Sales Tax Is Extremely Unpopular...But They're Still Pushing Forward
Extremist Kooks Like Traitor Greene, Biggs & Gaetz Have Now Signed On Buddy Carter’s bill to impose a 30% national sales tax on...

Howie Klein
Feb 15, 20233 min read
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