Capitalist Deserter Pfizer Just Got a Spanking
Pfizer, the giant drug company best known for Viagra, got smacked down last week for its snarky plan to save $35 billion in US taxes by becoming Irish. The Treasury Department is often a limp watchdog...
View ArticleGoing Offshore in the 2016 Election Campaign: Disappearing Money and...
There's a pile of money hiding offshore. It's true that jobs are also leaving the United States because American companies find it convenient to cut labor costs by moving manufacturing abroad, the...
View ArticleArchitect of Reagan Tax Cuts Says Trump Should Not Use His Plan
In a speech outlining his plan to "jumpstart" the economy last week, Donald Trump unveiled new proposals that would dramatically cut taxes. It would be, he said, the “biggest tax revolution since the...
View ArticleYou Pay Your Fair Share. Shouldn’t Wall Street?
Trump’s tax giveaways to Wall Street and other big corporations won’t create good jobs or help Main Street businesses; they’ll just line the pockets of executives. Continue reading The post You Pay...
View ArticleLet’s Stop the GOP’s Biggest Grift of All
Republican leadership isn’t subtle with their looting of the public treasury these days. Continue reading The post Let’s Stop the GOP’s Biggest Grift of All appeared first on BillMoyers.com.
View ArticleHow the Swindlers of Silicon Valley Avoid Paying Taxes
The sleeper issue in Donald Trump’s tax-cutting agenda is a potential bombshell called the “territorial tax system.” It doesn’t get the headlines, or even much political discussion, so the public is...
View ArticleGOP Tax Cuts Won’t Pass This Year — Or Maybe Even Next
On Sunday’s edition of CNN’s Reliable Sources, guest Bruce Bartlett referred to the right-wing hosts of Fox & Friends as “those three idiots.” This gave show host Brian Stelter the vapors, but it...
View ArticleSarah Huckabee Sanders and the Endless Tax Cut Metaphor
At Monday’s White House press briefing, on the very day that the first two indictments in the Robert Mueller investigation came down and a third Trump campaign adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the...
View ArticleThe Republican Long Game
It isn’t easy watching the country you love fall down a black hole from which it is not likely to emerge, but that is precisely what happened this past week with the Senate passage of the so-called...
View ArticleScramble at the White House
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is trying to get elected, but in such a storm of crazy that his actual policies are simply not getting much airtime. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pushing...
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