A victory for the law and economic sanity this evening as a three judge panel on the U.S. Court of International Trade dealt a potential death blow to Donald Trump, the man who bankrupted a casino and nearly destroyed the country with his mismanagement of the COVID Pandemic, and his ill advised designs to impose … Read more
House Republicans, despite members of their own caucus that want a crueler product, are moving forward with their plans to pass a big ugly budget and tax bill that, among other disgusting features, starves children, robs health benefits from the working and middle class, guts Head Start, and makes polluting great again. The Arizona Democratic … Read more
Guess what? We’re supposed to thank Donald Trump for deescalating the trade war. You know—the one he started. Today’s big headline: The U.S. and China reached a “major breakthrough” on tariffs. Trump’s proudly dialing down the economic arson he personally ignited, slapping himself on the back like he just brokered world peace instead of pausing … Read more
According to the Trump Admin’s own estimates at $6T, Trump just enacted the largest tax hike in American history – bar none – and did it without Congressional approval. The idea that slapping tariffs on the ENTIRE WORLD is justified by the national security authority granted the President by statute is absurd. This is simply … Read more
When the Man Who Bankrupted a Casino delivered remarks about imposing a new series of global and reciprocal tariffs on the United States’ trading partners, he commented that this country was much richer in the time before progressive taxation was introduced in 1913. Of course, Donald Trump feels that way. His whole MAGA-Project 2025 program … Read more