On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing how the proposed tax cut – contrary to its sponsors’ claims that it is oriented toward the middle class – would reward business and the wealthy, while exploding the deficit. Late yesterday afternoon, […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining the consequences of the Senate’s latest tax plan. Upon return from this week’s Thanksgiving recess, the Republican bill will be considered – one that would provide little benefit to the middle class while drastically increasing the national debt and resulting in 13 million Americans giving […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe Monday, Steven Rattner discussed the implications of President Trump’s latest health care related executive orders that stand to adversely affect millions of Americans. With Congress having failed to pass legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, President Trump has launched a full-fledged effort – more than a dozen significant […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts on President Trump’s tax reform proposal. While many details were left unresolved, we learned enough to know that it would favor business, increase the national debt substantially and hurt badly residents of high tax states such as New York and Connecticut. […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented three charts assessing the Graham-Cassidy health care bill and made the points in the notes below: The Graham-Cassidy health care bill is on life support – and for good reason. Contrary to what its supporters say, it would eviscerate the Affordable Care Act and leave millions without […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented new data on higher incomes in 2016, especially for women, but huge income inequalities persist. The biggest news was that median household incomes, after adjustment for inflation, rose by 3.2% last year on top of a 5.2% gain in 2015. While the Census Bureau has adjusted its […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how President Trump has been doing a lot of bragging on Twitter and in interviews about his economic accomplishments, but the evidence suggests that he doesn’t have that much to boast about – at least not yet. […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how President Trump has been dispatching self-congratulatory tweets about his economic stewardship but the reality is that apart from the stock market, he has little to brag about. The economy continues to grow and add jobs at roughly the same rate it did under President […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts explaining how moving beyond 10 year budget “scoring” and using longer term projections – including some newly released analyses – shows more dramatically the ways in which the bill would favor the elderly over the poor. Additionally, the Congressional Budget Office released updated numbers late last […]
The Congressional Budget Office released its “score” of the Senate health care bill and while it confirms the impression that the Senate bill is ever so slightly less draconian than the House bill, the result is still disastrous for the 22 million Americans who will become uninsured and the millions more who will find their […]
