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How the Republican Party Has Conned America for Over 30 Years
The Republican Party has been running a long con on the American people, and Trump's new tax cut proposals are just the latest iteration on it. This con involves getting Democrats to shoot Santa Claus (Clinton cutting welfare/Obama proposing the chained CPI cut to Social Security) and using tax policy to put a jolly old Saint Nick outfit on the Republicans. As Bruce Bartlett - one of the architects and major salespeople for Reagan's tax cuts in the '80s - wrote in USA Today this week: "Virtually everything Republicans say about taxes today is a lie. Tax cuts and tax rate reductions will not pay for themselves; they never have. Republicans don't even believe they will, they are just excuses to slash spending for the poor when revenues collapse and deficits rise. There is no evidence that tax reform raises growth, although it may improve fairness and tax administration."
So how do Republicans get away with this lie, and why does the press let them get away with it? It's a fascinating story.
Read more here.
-Thom
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Wednesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: " It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.
Article: " 2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Hour Two: Who has signed onto the People's Platform?
- Nina Turner, Our Revolution
Bible: " Jeremiah 1:5" " "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.""
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make..."
Quote: " Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." - Aeschylus.
Hour Three: Steve Scalise... Is NRA Money Really More Important Than His life?
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Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
Thom will be off for the next few days while he and the team set up a new studio in Portland (though he will still have a base in DC).
There won’t be a live YouTube show but we will be posting some unreleased videos.
There willl be some ‘Best of’ subscription podcasts.
And don't forget...Democracy is NOT a spectator sport...it begins with you...
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Thom's Poll
Will the GOP Be Able To Bribe AZ, KY, AK, & ME Politicians to Repeal Healthcare?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
How Can You Call Yourself Free in America Today?
We Have To Regulate Them Like Cars (w/Guest Julio Rivera)
The End Of Nuclear: Putting Out Trump's Fire (w/Guest Congressman Dennis Kucinich)
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