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“The tax cuts enacted since 2000 have been enormously costly and have mostly benefited those who are least in need of help,” said Steve Wamhoff, director of federal policy at ITEP and the lead author of the analysis. “For example, the richest 1 percent received more benefits than the bottom 60 percent. It’s worth asking whether this is the result most Americans wanted from their lawmakers.” 
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by Republican former congressman Aaron Schock, who resigned in 2015 amid questions about spending on his lavish “Downton Abbey”-inspired Washington office, to escape charges accusing him of defrauding the government while a member of the House of Representatives.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
During his brief time as a member of Congress, notorious spendthrift Aaron Schock got a little too greedy for his own good. As a result of his profligacy, he eventually became the disgraced poster child for all that is wrong with the GOP leadership.
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The General Services Administration was aware that renting a federal property to Donald Trump may violate the Constitution — but did so anyway.
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Trump and the GOP sold their tax overhaul by promising lower middle-class taxes. As Americans file their taxes, many discover they got fleeced.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
Thanks to the GOP Tax Scam, the vampire Republicans in the leadership double-crossed middle-class taxpayers regardless of race, gender or political party. If you're a member of the middle-class and you're not mad yet, you should be.
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“The cry of the poor daily becomes stronger, but heard less, drowned out by the din of the rich few, who grow ever fewer and more rich,” he said, the Vatican reported.
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Thanks to Republican accounting trickery, millions of Americans are losing out on refunds or getting stuck with tax bills they didn't expect.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
The dirty rotten truth about the GOP Tax Scam: while the vampire Republicans in the GOP leadership kept voters distracted with misinformation & bold-faced lies, they targeted every single working class & middle-class taxpayer regardless of race, gender or political affiliation.
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The Republican Tax Scam of 2017 was filled with tricks and gimmicks hiding the fact that it was a massive giveaway to large corporations and the super-rich.
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OECD says schemes selling either residency or citizenship threaten efforts to combat tax evasion
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President Donald Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts. But the clothing industry was mostly spared from the tariffs, meaning Ivanka Trump’s foreign-made products for her fashion line will be unaffected.
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Trump’s needless trade war is already eliminating American manufacturing jobs. Now, even the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is fighting back against Trump by releasing a new campaign against his damaging tariffs.
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When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce goes on the warpath, it doesn't matter who you are, you are in big trouble. Just watch what happens to this guy.
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President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S.court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by refusing to separate himself from his business empire while in office, claiming "absolute immunity."...
Anonymous Hades's insight:
Donald Trump not only wants a pass after knowing breaking U.S. laws, he wants a permanent "stay out of jail card." If that happens, greed and avarice won't be the only sins driving the Trump administration and the rest of the skinflints, cheapskates and misers in Congress.
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As the Republican Party moves toward Trump’s looniness — his xenophobia, isolationism, attacks on the press and on truth, conflicts of interest, anti-Muslim and racist provocations, climate-change denials, proposed cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, and evisceration of the constitutional divide between church and state — Jamie Dimon and his ilk could come out big losers.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
Why don't the skinflints, cheapskates and misers in the GOP leadership stand up for the needs of voters? It's because, between the kickbacks and the dark money, they have no need for you.
It doesn't matter whether you're a GOP constituent or not.
The middle class and working people don't pay GOP leaders enough to care, but the CEOs do. So when CEOs don't want Republican leaders to help the voting public, help doesn't come.
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Republicans in Congress are pushing plans for their most unpopular ideas, even as the party faces major challenges in upcoming elections.
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The Trump International Hotel rolled out the red carpet last summer for the two coal companies that have done the most to curry favor with the owner of the Washington, D.C., luxury destination: President Trump.
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While taxpayers like you are struggling to pay their inflated tax bills, Donald Trump is raking in the cash from the lobbyists and executives who stay at his hotel. However, he isn't required to disclose how much he earns and he continually refuses to show anyone his tax returns. It doesn't seem fair, does it? No, it doesn't.
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MaineDocuments recently obtained by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram show that the LePage administration paid anywhere from $362 to more than $1,100 a night for rooms at the luxury hotel during trips to meet with President Trump or his inner circle, attend White House events or talk to members of Congress. Receipts from those dozen trips also show the Republican governor or his administration spending hundreds of dollars on filet mignon or other expensive menu items at the restaurant in the Trump hotel. Those expenditures are likely to draw additional scrutiny from attorneys who have cited LePage’s previously disclosed stays at the D.C. hotel in a federal lawsuit alleging the president is improperly profiting from the business.
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The GOP legislation encourages offshoring of US jobs and production by taxing foreign profits of American companies "at half the rate on domestic earnings."
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Fox & Friends had a big laugh Thursday morning at the smaller tax refunds being received by millions of Americans because of the GOP Tax Scam.
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Calling Trump’s bid to halt discovery in the emoluments case “a drastic end-run around the appellate process,” the state attorneys general contended in a brief to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the president cannot short-circuit the normal appeal process to avoid discovery.
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Trump voters have taken to Twitter to express their outrage over the fact that they aren’t getting those lofty tax cuts that the Republicans promised them.When the legislation was passed, middle class and working class Americans were told that their taxes would go down starting in 2019, but so far...
Anonymous Hades's insight:
It was only a matter of time until the vampire Republicans in the GOP leadership incurred the ire of their taxpaying, working class and middle-class constituents because nobody likes getting double-crossed. Nobody.
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New York Times columnist Charles Blow crushed the president for creating a reality for the world to see, while behind the scenes it’s nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The CNN panel discussion addressed the unbelievable fundraising President Donald Trump has done in his first to years in office.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the “Tariffs imposed by the United States are nothing more than a tax increase on American consumers and businesses — including manufacturers, farmers and technology companies— who will all pay more for commonly used products and materials. Retaliatory tariffs imposed by other countries on U.S. exports will make American-made goods more expensive, resulting in lost sales and ultimately lost jobs here at home.”
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The House farm bill would kick families off nutritional assistance, while giving subsidies to billionaires. Every House Republican running for Senate voted to pass it.
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When skinflints, cheapskates and misers are in charge, poor children starve, while GOP leaders live large. Migrant families are suffering. That much is true, and Republican leaders despise your kids too.
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After President Trump made his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he was filmed showing his appreciation for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. “Say hello to your boy,” Trump told Kennedy, seemingly referring to his son, Justin.
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The outgoing House speaker, more than any other lawmaker, paved the path for congressional Republicans’ subjugation to the president.
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Why did Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya just admit that she’s a Russian informant? A CNN panel discussed that today, with everyone agreeing that it was something Putin wanted her to do—and wondering aloud whether it’s just to sow more chaos, or if there is a greater strategy at play. Brain Karem, said his sources are indicating that this may be the next phase in Putin’s efforts to undermine the United States by exposing his help …
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