On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner discussed charts showing that hardly a day goes by without Donald Trump tweet-bragging about record stock prices – as if soaring equity markets have much to do with the wealth, jobs or wages of the average American, the folks who made him president. […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that amidst front page issues like North Korea and the tax bill, less attention is being paid to one of President Trump’s more significant “successes”: appointing judges, many of them younger, most of them white and several of them demonstrably unqualified. This is of great importance […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that President Trump’s casual relationship with the truth is well known but his lies about taxes and the economy are extraordinary. “It’s the largest tax cut in the history of our country,” he has […]
On today’s Morning Joe, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that the Republican tax bill that emerged from conference late last week is no better for either average Americans or the nation’s growing deficit problems and is clearly worse in at least one important respect – any real hope of reforming the nation’s overly complicated tax […]
On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, Steven Rattner presented charts showing that with the passage of the tax bill by the Senate, a major restructuring of the tax system seems almost certain to occur – with enormous adverse effects for residents of high tax states, almost all of them dominated by Democrats, as well as substantially […]
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 […]
