Rattner on GOP budget. Aquino two local politicians. Trump went after poor. Speaker race.
Rattner breaks down the utter evil of the GOP budget. Neil Aquino analyses two local politicians. Under Trump, the IRS went after the working class. The Speaker's race gives the cesspool a lousy name.
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Are Republicans poised to elect a pervert or white supremacist sympathizer as Speaker?: Two flawed Republicans, Steve Scalise, and Jim Jordan, are running to be the new GOP Speaker of the House. They will fit right in with the likes of Dennis Hastert. [More]
Steve Rattner highlights the evil within the proposed Republican Budget: Steve Rattner illustrated how the budget is really subdivided. It makes it clear GOP politicians are just evil based on the items they choose to cut instead of raising revenue from the rich. [More]
Neil Aquino from the Houston Democracy Project is here. The Houston Democracy Project works daily to make democracy a top issue in 2023 Houston city politics & to inspire and strengthen pro-democracy coalitions. This week, we'll be discussing Neil's conversation with a Republican Houston Council candidate & Democratic Councilwoman Abbie Kamin's discomfort over questions about the protection of a historic Houston Black community. [More]
Under Trump, IRS Targeted Low-Income Families at Higher Rate Than Millionaires for First Time: During the final year of Donald Trump's presidency, the Internal Revenue Service audited low-income families at a higher rate than millionaires for the first time, according to an Americans for Tax Fairness analysis released as congressional Republicans work to further hamper the agency's ability to crack down on rich tax cheats. Years of Republican-imposed budget cuts have left the IRS badly understaffed and without sufficient resources to aggressively pursue wealthy tax evaders, whose returns tend to be more complex. As a result, ATF noted in its analysis, "audits of millionaires have dropped 92% over the last decade." Audits of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients have also fallen over the past 10 years, but not nearly as dramatically. [More]
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