As Orrin Hatch has admitted, what’s blocking universal coverage is conservative ideology.
Conservatism
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Mnuchin’s Promise to Not Cut Taxes for the Rich Is a Giant Farce
Democrats should grill the treasury secretary-designate about the Republicans’ planned windfall of tax cuts for the wealthy.
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Obamacare Repealers: Trickle Downer of the Week
Let’s be clear: Repealing the Affordable Care Act would be a tax giveaway to the wealthiest few, at the expense of everyone else.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Trickle Downer of the Week
In his annual address, Tom Donohue, the head of the powerful business lobby, staked out his aggressive plan to cut taxes and gut regulations—all in the name of “growth.”
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Kentucky’s Attack on Unions Provides a Glimpse into the GOP’s Impending War on Workers
Governor Matt Bevin’s anti-union crusade, coming soon to a jurisdiction near you.
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Jeff Sessions Is Public Enemy Number One for Voting-Rights Groups
Common Cause, a nonpartisan political advocacy and watchdog group, rarely wades into political nomination battles. In its nearly half-century of existence, the group has come out in staunch opposition to just a handful of nominees it found extraordinarily hostile to its core mission. Now it will oppose the confirmation of Trump’s expected nominee for attorney […]
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Will GOP Power Seizure in North Carolina Become National Model?
A bid by North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature to strip power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor has prompted another round of progressive protests and civil disobedience.
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Paul Ryan: Trickle Downer of the Week
Don’t be fooled by Ryan’s “simplification” rhetoric. The speaker’s tax plan is a massive giveaway for Corporate America and the 1 percent.
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Incoming EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s Other Target: Clean Water
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to protect clean water, but his selection of Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency tells a different story.
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How Donald Trump Is Turning the GOP into a Postmodernist Party
Faced with a leader who has no grasp on reality, GOP leaders are undermining the very idea of truth.
