Author Archives: Frank Clemente

The GOP tax bill is creating jobs—just not in the U.S.

Thanks to the GOP tax law, corporations get huge breaks for outsourcing jobs. And workers? They get pink slips.

We should have told them to be more specific. When President Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress called their massive tax overhaul last year the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” most of us assumed the jobs would be in the United States. Continue reading

Under cover of Kavanaugh, Republicans passed huge tax cuts for the wealthy

While Americans watched the Senate, House Republicans passed an extra $3 trillion tax cut for rich people and corporations.

While Americans were transfixed by Senate hearings over Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults, House Republicans quietly passed another enormous tax handout for the wealthiest Americans. Continue reading