Today’s Big Picture is all about Trump’s new tax plan. Together with prominent economist Michael Hudson, Thom looks at whether Trump’s claims that the tax cuts will benefit the middle class are true – or it is the corporations winning again. Later in the show, with a panel of guests, Thom looks at net neutrality laws – and those who want to oppose it. For more information on the stories we've covered visit our websites at thomhartmann.com - freespeech.org - and RT.com.

Zaid Jilani, Journalist-The Intercept & Horace Cooper, Attorney/Senior Fellow-National Center for Public Policy Research. Even though poll after poll show's that the majority of the country supports net neutrality - Republicans are dead set on selling off and corporatizing our public internet. Why are they so out of touch with REAL AMERICANS?

Big Picture Interview - The devastation in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is on an apocalyptic scale. Eighty percent of the island's agricultural industry was destroyed - flooding is rampant - and most of the population could be without power for as many as six months. This is the kind of disaster we're only going to see more of as climate change kicks into gear - but for the banksters that already have Puerto Rico in their grasp - it could be just another chance to bleed the island dry. For more on how the vulture capitalists have ruined Puerto Rico - and how they could use Hurricane Maria as a launching bad for more of their financial piracy - I'm joined by Greg Palast.

Big Picture Interview - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Author of numerous books including most recently, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown. The signs are everywhere - are we nearing the end of capitalism? And if so, what comes next?