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Chart: Who REALLY Benefits From Tax Cuts?
Marginal tax rates — especially for the top — used to be much, much higher. Most Americans are shocked to discover that before 1982 when Reagan first implemented the fixation with tax cutting, income...
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Get Your Income Tax Receipt: Are These Your Spending Priorities?
This graph separates federal income tax dollars from the dedicated payroll taxes that go to Social Security and Medicare Part A. As you can see, in 2014 only 2.5% of Federal spending went to...
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How to Get a Teabagger to Rail Against ObamaTrade (aka TPP)
Where the hell are the Teabaggers when you need ‘em? The TPP (not the ACA) really is the secretly-negotiated takeover of America and subversion of U.S. laws to foreign courts. Of course the Koch...
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Whoa! Look at Our Whopping Trade Deficit. Then Say NO to the Stinking TPP.
If the definition of “insanity” is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result, then supporting the latest trade monstrosity — the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — would...
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Take That All You Social Security Chicken Littles!
The next time some “Chicken Little” tries to convince you that the Social Security trust fund is empty, show them this annual accounting statement. Notice how in 2014, the trust fund earned $98...
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Guess The $412/mo Hidden Govt Welfare LOVED by Old Teabaggers
The truth is only about 50% of Medicare can be called an “earned benefit.” Most folks don’t realize that since Medicare’s inception, the payroll tax (2.9% for most workers; and recently 3.8% for high...
View ArticleMy Message To All You Early Hillary Boosters
I often hear progressives complain, “Why can’t we pull the Democratic party to the left, as the Tea Party has pulled the Republican party (and the political conversation) way to the right in just a few...
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U.S. Gun Violence in 8 Must-See Charts
For further discussion of these charts, see my presentation “Gun Violence in America: Fact, Fiction and Inertia” here: www.connectthedotsusa.com/...Staggering U.S. Firearm FactsIn U.S., Guns Kill...
View ArticleHillary’s Latest Dirty Trick Outrages Even Kumbaya Progressive Thom Hartmann
By now most of you are familiar with Hillary’s latest dirty trick when, in the last debate, she accused Bernie of voting to deregulate the financial markets in 2000. WTF? Bernie supporters were all...
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Why This Pragmatist Is Voting For Bernie
Here’s the reality: With the Republicans still likely to control at least the House until 2020, nothing progressive is going to get passed through Congress. Not Hillary’s $12/hour minimum wage any more...
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What Part of “Undue Influence” Do You Not Understand? Obama Explains It —...
My question to Team Hillary: If the only kind of corrupting influence of money in politics is the narrowly defined “quid pro quo” variety (i.e, I give you money in exchange for a vote or other official...
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Trump/RyanCare Really Screws Over Older, Low-Income and Rural Americans (aka...
The Republicans finally released their replacement plan for the ACA last week and IT IS UGLY— especially for older, lower-income, rural and sick Americans. And if you fall into all those categories,...
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