- "Don't Cut Our Taxes," Say 400+ Very Wealthy Americans. "Raise Them." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/13/dont-cut-our-taxes-say-400-very-wealthy-americans-raise-them 13 comments politics
- Obama: "We cannot afford to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/us/politics/obama-holds-first-news-conference-since-june.html 5 comments politics
- Trump Team Pushes Back Against `Tax Cuts for Wealthy' Critics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-01/mnuchin-says-tax-reforms-aimed-squarely-at-middle-class-cuts 14 comments politics
- Trump Cuts Critical Services to Pay for Wealthy Tax Cuts https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/18/trump-cuts-critical-services-pay-wealthy-tax-cuts 10 comments politics
- In Shocker, GOP Proposes Cutting Taxes For the Wealthy http://prospect.org/article/shocker-gop-proposes-cutting-taxes-wealthy 144 comments politics
- Robert Reich: Why We Have to End the Bush Tax Cuts for the Wealthy http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9649-why-we-have-to-end-the-bush-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy 7 comments politics
- Democratic ‘budget hawks’ champion expensive tax cuts for wealthy http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/blue-dogs-tax-cuts-wealthy/ 16 comments politics
- Trump/Republican tax cuts for Corporations and the Wealthy cause the U.S. budget deficit to balloon 27% in one year https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/12/the-us-budget-deficit-is-up-27percent-and-getting-closer-to-1-trillion.html 18 comments economy
- Obama To Boehner: Higher Taxes On The Wealthy Or The Bush Tax Cuts Expir http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/obama-to-boehner-higher-taxes-on-the-wealthy-or-the-bush-tax-cuts-expire.php 2207 comments politics
- 50-year study of tax cuts on wealthy shows they always fail to "trickle down" https://www.salon.com/2020/12/27/50-year-study-of-tax-cuts-on-wealthy-shows-they-always-fail-to-trickle-down/ 1349 comments politics
- Trump barges into tax debate, seeks deeper cut for wealthy http://abcnews.go.com/politics/wirestory/chairman-house-agree-nix-property-tax-deduction-51108500 34 comments politics
- GOP launches campaign to cut top tax rate on wealthy AGAIN. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/gop-moves-away-from-entitlements-and-toward-tax-reform-in-budget-deal/2013/04/27/a3bfc5ac-add9-11e2-8bf6-e70cb6ae066e_story.html 11 comments politics
- Mnuchin Says It’s ‘Very Hard Not to Give Tax Cuts to the Wealthy’ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/steven-mnuchin-very-hard-not-to-give-tax-cuts-to-the-wealthy 20 comments politics
- 'Welfare for the Wealthy': 227 House Republicans Pass $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut for Corporations and the Rich https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/16/welfare-wealthy-227-house-republicans-pass-15-trillion-tax-cut-corporations-and-rich 53 comments politics
- the *only* way to speed up the economic recovery is to bolster the middle class. Tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy do nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/ar2010083005091.html 187 comments politics
- The Kansas experiment shows what happens when you sharply cut taxes on the wealthy http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/the-kansas-tax-cut-experiment.html 310 comments politics
- Congressional Research Service Report On Tax Cuts For Wealthy Suppressed By GOP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/congressional-research-service_n_2059156.html 4 comments politics
- Democrats propose funding teacher pay raises by canceling tax cuts for the wealthy https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-propose-funding-teacher-pay-raises-by-canceling-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy 256 comments politics
- Study: Rick Perry tax plan would cut revenues by $1 trillion, benefit wealthy http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-perry-tax-study-20111101,0,5022265.story 42 comments politics
- Republicans Issue Threat to Block All Legislation Until Wealthy Get Tax Cut Extension http://veracitystew.com/2010/12/01/republicans-issue-threat-to-block-all-legislation-until-wealthy-get-tax-cut-extension/ 8 comments politics
- 19 States Cut Income Taxes to Benefit Wealthy — With Help of Dark Money Groups https://truthout.org/articles/19-states-cut-income-taxes-to-benefit-wealthy-with-help-of-dark-money-groups/ 62 comments politics
- Tax breaks for wealthy paid for with deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/399575-tax-breaks-for-wealthy-paid-for-with-deep-cuts-to-medicare 279 comments politics
- Looks like some Dems are joining the GOP on letting the tax cuts for the wealthy expire http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100902/ap_on_re_us/us_tax_cuts 11 comments reddit.com
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. Hands Tax Cuts To Wealthy While Housing Cuts Leave Kids with Lead Poisoning, Sewage In Apartments https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-us-hands-tax-cuts-wealthy-while-housing-cuts-leave-1411045 527 comments politics
- Senate releases planed bill; lowers taxes for wealthy, cuts funding from Planned Parenthood and Medicaid https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/22/senate-healthcare-bill-draft-republicans-trump-obamacare 4 comments politics
- CBO on Paul Ryan budget: Medicare beneficiaries would have to pay an average of $6,500 a year more for insurance, will cut $700 billion from program to finance tax cuts for the wealthy http://www.salon.com/2012/08/14/the_gops_newest_target_medicare/ 9 comments politics
- New CNN Poll: Majority want tax increase for wealthy and deep spending cuts. (Hear that, GOP?) http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/10/new-cnn-poll-majority-want-tax-increase-for-wealthy-and-deep-spending-cuts/ 21 comments politics
- Rachel Maddow Exposes GOP: Tax Increase on Poor and Middle Class while Tax Cuts For Corporations and Wealthy - We must not let Republicans get away with sticking budget deficits caused by low or no taxes on corporations and wealthy while cutting the education and healthcare of our children. http://egbertowillies.com/2011/03/21/rachel-maddow-exposes-gop-tax-increase-on-poor-and-middle-class-while-tax-cuts-for-corporations-and-wealthy.aspx 58 comments politics
- Obama says Republicans holding middle class tax cuts hostage to get tax relief for wealthy. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5jjhs8s3jindu2oi6whb_kqb-pvwad9i8j1b01 8 comments politics
- The 400 highest-earning US households made nearly $345 million in 2007, up 31% from a year earlier and doubled from 2001 - the year Congress adopted tax cuts proposed by Bush and which disproportionately benefited the wealthy. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/business/economy/18irs.html 4 comments politics
- Trump’s new Treasury, Commerce nominees say no ‘absolute’ tax cut for the wealthy, predict faster economic growth https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/30/trumps-new-treasury-commerce-nominees-say-no-absolute-tax-cut-for-the-wealthy-predict-faster-economic-growth/?utm_term=.68cf4105ae79 16 comments politics
- The Republican's Magical Mystery Tour (Starting Next Week): "Dynamic scoring is the magical-mystery math Republicans have been pushing...[it] would make it easier to enact tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, because the tax cuts wouldn't look as if they increased the budget deficit." http://commondreams.org/views/2014/12/29/republicans-magical-mystery-tour-coming-soon 21 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders Blows the Lid Off the ‘Bipartisan’ Plan To Cut Taxes for Corporations and the Wealthy: He exposed the bipartisan Simpson/Bowles plan as a scheme to lower taxes on the wealthy and corporations, while passing the burden on to us http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-blows-lid-bipartisan-plan-cut-taxes-corporations-wealthy.html 28 comments politics
- Buffett - A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy: "I support President Obama’s proposal to eliminate the Bush tax cuts for high-income taxpayers... and we need Congress, right now, to enact a minimum tax on high incomes." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/opinion/buffett-a-minimum-tax-for-the-wealthy.html 42 comments politics
- What headline would FOXNews choose for a report that, by a 54 to 44 percent margin, Americans favor ending the Bush tax cuts for the ultra wealthy? If you guessed " President Poll: Nearly Half Oppose Tax Hikes on Wealthy" you win! http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/16/poll-nearly-half-oppose-tax-hikes-wealthy/ 742 comments politics
- Tax Cuts For The Middle Class? House Republican leader says says he would vote for President Obama's plan to extend tax cuts only for middle-class earners, not the wealthy. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/aleqm5iv8uadh816rxzyikw9in_wgjt3cwd9i6in8g1 4 comments politics
- The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, the war in Iraq, passing Medicare Part D without paying for it — that would be generational theft. http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/07/sarah-palin-generational-theft/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+climateprogress%2Flcrx+%28climate+progress%29&utm_content=google+reader 5 comments politics
- "So Donald Trump has unveiled his tax plan. It would, it turns out, lavish huge cuts on the wealthy while blowing up the deficit." -- Paul Krugman http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/opinion/voodoo-never-dies.html 1529 comments politics
- Tax cuts for business, pay cuts for workers. The Fiscal Cliff deal will accomplish a further redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. Big business and many wealthy investors will reap tax cuts, while every working class earner will be hit by a tax increase of 2 percent. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/05/fisc-j05.html 8 comments politics
- Manchin’s complaints about GOP tax cuts were true, but incomplete | Joe Manchin complained that GOP tax cuts were tilted toward the wealthy. That's true, but it wasn't the failed policy's only important flaw. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/manchins-complaints-gop-tax-cuts-true-incomplete-rcna30249 17 comments politics