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How Much Money Billionaires’ Row at Trump’s Inaugural Could Save in GOP Tax Cuts
Sitting close by as Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term was a clutch of billionaires worth some $1.3 trillion, including the planet’s three…
Big Corporations Reaped Disproportionate Share of Benefits from Trump Tax Scam
Over half the benefit of all the loopholes and special breaks in the corporate tax code—over $150 billion worth—went to just 25 companies between…
Billionaires Dominating Trump Economic Team Eager To Push Policies Making Themselves Even Richer
Donald Trump has stacked his proposed economic-policy team with fellow billionaires and other super-rich people who will pursue policies that benefit…
Big Firms and Billionaires Curry Favor With Trump By Giving Millions For His Inauguration Festivities
Apple’s Cook, Open AI’s Altman, Amazon, Google & GM Among Biggest Donors–All Could be Deeply Impacted by GOP Tax Legislation

December 2024

Tis the Season for Gifting–But The Rich Expect Their Biggest Presents Next Year
It’s holiday gift-giving season, but for America’s richest households and most profitable corporations, the biggest presents could come next year in the…
Turns Out Extending the Costly, Unfair Trump Tax Cuts Won’t Even Help the Economy
The last plausible-sounding argument for why we should extend all the expiring parts of the 2017 Trump-GOP tax law recently expired itself.
Cost-Free Tax Cuts Are Just the Most Extreme Example of GOP Financial Fantasies
When does giving away trillions of dollars not cost a cent? Apparently when you’re a Republican leader in Congress desperate to give more tax cuts to…

November 2024

Deja Vu: President Trump, GOP Congress, Awful Tax Law. Let’s Not Do It Again.
We’ve been here before. Donald Trump has been president, Republicans have controlled Congress, and their biggest goal has been to enact a tax law that…
Even As Billionaire Wealth Surges After Trump’s Election, New GOP Leader Aims To Give Them $2.7 Trillion Tax Break
America’s Top Plutocrats Are Now Worth A Record-Breaking $6.7 Trillion, Yet Republicans Under New Senate Chief Thune Want To Eliminate Estate Tax

October 2024

Billionaire Clans Spend Nearly $2 BILLION On 2024 Elections
150 Families Have Already Outpaced By $700 Million What 600 Individual Billionaires Spent in 2020
The Taxation Election: Both Sides Emphasize Tax Policy In Closing Arguments
Every election turns on many issues. But if ever there was a time for taxes to be top among them, this is it.
Billionaire-Clan Donations Are Backing GOP Over Democrats by 7-1 in Key Senate Races
The seven battleground states are Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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