Frank Clemente
Frank Clemente is executive director for Americans for Tax Fairness.
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Views Wednesday, October 03, 2018 Under Cover of Kavanaugh, Republicans Passed Huge Tax Cuts for the Wealthy 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. Round one of this giveaway cost $2 trillion . Round two is even bigger — it would explode the deficit by... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 03, 2018 Check Your Wallet: Can You Find the $4,000 Trump Promised You? It was a promise that couldn’t have been clearer: when President Trump sold his tax scam to Congress and the American people, he said the average family would see a $4,000 pay raise from their employers. “I would expect to see an immediate jump in wage growth,” added Kevin Hassett, head of Trump’s... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 04, 2018 This July Fourth, Americans Should Rebel Against GOP Economic Policies This Fourth of July, America’s working families should rebel against President Trump ’s bait-and-switch economic policies that leave them worse off while further enriching the wealthy. The new GOP tax law mostly benefits the rich and corporations — including oil companies, health insurers and big... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Senate Health Bill Slashes Medicaid to Cut Millionaires’ Taxes Despite slight differences, the health-care legislation under consideration in the Senate retains the same sickening goal of its House counterpart: cutting taxes for millionaires, billionaires and big corporations at the expense of working families. These bills are not about ensuring the health of... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 18, 2017 Trump Cuts Critical Services to Pay for Wealthy Tax Cuts At a recent press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Marta Conner told reporters, “My daughter Caroline is alive because of Medicaid.” Caroline suffers from Rett Syndrome , a rare, debilitating neurodevelopmental disease that prevents her from using her hands, talking, and walking. Marta says that... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 23, 2016 6 Worst Things About Trump Tax Plan On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised the biggest tax cuts since the Reagan era and proposed reforms that would drastically increase our country’s already extreme levels of inequality. Now theRepublican-controlled Congress is considering ramming through tax reforms in the first half of 2017... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 04, 2014 Walmart’s Top-to-Bottom Taxpayer Subsidies Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a hit. The cutbacks ate into the discount giant’s sales because so many of its low-income customers rely on this public assistance program to help pay for their groceries. And that made... Read more |