Podcast appearances and mentions of frank clemente

On the radio show this week, we cover the harmful effects of the recent attacks on Black studies and literature – and what you can do to help stop them; and we also cover the debt ceiling debate and how it could impact programs moms care about, including healthcare, SNAP, child care, and more; how tax reform and fair taxes can lift our entire nation; and why compassion can help make the world go around.   *Special guests include: Professor Leslie Alexander, historian, professor, author, and activist, @lesliemalex; Kathleen Romig, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, @centeronbudget; Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax Fairness, @4TaxFairness; Rick Hanson, President at Global Compassion Coalition, @CompassionMvmt, @drrhanson

On the radio show this week, we cover the harmful effects of the recent attacks on Black studies and literature – and what you can do to help stop them; and we also cover the debt ceiling debate and how it could impact programs moms care about, including healthcare, SNAP, child care, and more; how tax reform and fair taxes can lift our entire nation; and why compassion can help make the world go around.   *Special guests include: Professor Leslie Alexander, historian, professor, author, and activist, @lesliemalex; Kathleen Romig, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, @centeronbudget; Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax Fairness, @4TaxFairness; Rick Hanson, President at Global Compassion Coalition, @CompassionMvmt, @drrhanson   Recorded on: Tuesday, February 21, 2023

On the radio show this week, we cover the harmful effects of the recent attacks on Black studies and literature – and what you can do to help stop them; and we also cover the debt ceiling debate and how it could impact programs moms care about, including healthcare, SNAP, child care, and more; how tax reform and fair taxes can lift our entire nation; and why compassion can help make the world go around. *Special guests include: Professor Leslie Alexander, historian, professor, author, and activist, @lesliemalex; Kathleen Romig, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, @centeronbudget; Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax Fairness, @4TaxFairness; Rick Hanson, President at Global Compassion Coalition, @CompassionMvmt, @drrhanson

In this weekend episode, two segments from this week's C-SPAN's Washington Journal program – examining House Republicans' legislative focus in their first week in the majority. First, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist and Frank Clemente, Executive Director of Americans for Tax Fairness, discuss the House vote this week to rescind funding for the IRS and the future of tax policy under the Republican-led House, Then, Mercatus Center senior researcher Weifeng Zhong discusses the establishment of a new select committee to investigate the impact and influence of the Chinese Communist Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trump tax breaks in 2017, resulted in over $1 billion going to large profitable businesses. Big corporations are pushing for tax breaks, again, into the new tax laws. Although some tax breaks go away in 2022 and 2023 corporations are now pressing for reversal, to keep their breaks. Executive Director of Americans for Tax Fairness, Frank Clemente joins Thom Hartmann to explain who pays for these tax breaks? Take a guess . . . it's you.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

America exists today as a bizarre anomaly – we profess to be an electoral democracy, yet we are ruled by a governmental plutocracy. One especially gross example of this incongruity is the overwhelming power of big money over the people's will. By a wide margin, Americans of all political stripes want to ban the distorting force of huge, electoral campaign donations by favor-seeking corporations and ultra-rich elites. Yet… nothing. National and state lawmakers take the plutocratic money and promptly bury democratic reforms that could stop the gusher of corrupt cash. An analysis of donations in this year's congressional races shows that this plutocratic perversion of our politics and government has reached absurd levels. Historian Nancy McLean and public interest advocate Frank Clemente have documented that the two main SuperPACs trying to put Republicans in Congress got about half of their $188 million election fund from just 27 billionaires. Also, a corporate front that backs GOP candidates, Club for Growth, got nearly $35 million from only three billionaires. Thanks to years of congressional stonewalling and the steady partisan stacking of our top courts with corporate idealogues, there is essentially no limits on this purchase of lawmakers. Indeed, the biggest donors are even allowed to undermine democracy in secret, not revealing their identity. The money-dealing in politics translates directly into anti-democratic public policies. Lawmakers elected with this money not only support the billionaires' special-interest agenda (which the people don't want), but also are fierce opponents of any reforms to increase voter participation in our governing process (which people do want). That's why, for example, efforts to guarantee every eligible American a Constitutional right to vote have not moved forward in Congress – even though the great majority of people favor it. It's a simple political equation: Plutocratic money quashes democratic will, producing plutocratic public policies.

Why do we need a billionaire's tax?   Frank Clemente is Executive Director at Americans For Tax Fairness. Frank Clemente A Billionaire's Tax could fund many policy objectives, including universal preschool, paid family leave, expanded Medicare services, making increased child tax credits permanent, and new policies to address climate change.  Jim Hightower   Alert: Kartoonus Americanus Is Going Extinct!   Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view. Kar-toon-us A-mer-i-kan-as.   These are the newspaper cartoonists who've long delighted readers and infuriated power elites. And there's nothing natural about their sudden decline – it's not the result of a declining talent pool, and certainly not due to a lack of political targets. Rather, what's happening is that their media habitat is being intentionally destroyed. Michael Steele A Deep Rot Inside the GOP Leadership.   Michael Steele was the Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland and the Chairman of The Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011. He is an MSNBC commentator and an advisor to the never-Trump Lincoln Project. He's not even sure "saving" the Republican Party is a good idea.   If you'd like to hear the entire episode, visit BillPressPods.com.  

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi remains optimistic that shes closing on a deal to pass President Biden's Build Back Better act. For more, KCBS Radio political reporter and host of this segment, Doug Sovern, spoke with Frank Clemente, Executive Director at American for Tax Fairness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*Billionaires Tax May Win Support in Congressional negotiations on Biden's Build Back Better Plan; Frank Clemente, executive director Americans for Tax Fairness; Producer: Scott Harris. *Joe Manchin Succeeds in Killing Key Climate Provision in Democrats' Reconciliation; Bill John Noël, senior climate campaigner with Greenpeace USA; Producer: Scott Harris. *Israel Designates Palestinian Human Rights Groups as Terrorists; Shelly Altman, chair of the New Haven chapter of the group Jewish Voice for Peace; Producer: Melinda Tuhus.

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An economic recovery that works for all. Why racial equity matters. How billionaires are getting richer in the middle of a pandemic. Plus, George Floyd’s death and the reckoning of America.   The economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic for people of color. Plus, how tax breaks for the rich are standing in the way of a fair recovery. And Bill Press with CNN’s Bakari Sellers, author of My Vanishing Country.   Danyelle Solomon The coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on every community across the United States, but nowhere more than in communities of color. That’s why Danyelle Solomon is calling for a recovery that will reduce the racial wealth gap rather than increase it.   Frank Clemente Within the most recent coronavirus stimulus package is a tax cut that is making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else.  Frank Clemente says it’s time to put an end to this millionaire’s give away.   Bakari Sellers What justice means in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.  Bill Press with CNN commentator and author of My Vanishing Country, Bakari Sellers. If you'd like to hear the entire interview, visit BillPressPods.com.   Jim Hightower Beware of a Trump Coup!

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Building an economy that works for everyone, and how to pay for it. Plus, the decline of diplomacy under Donald Trump.   A moral budget to end poverty in America.  The massive failure of the GOP tax plan. And a conversation with Wendy Sherman, lead negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal.   Shailly Gupta Barnes In June, the Poor People’s Campaign, along with the Institute for Policy Studies released a “Moral Budget” to end poverty in America. Shailly Gupta Barnes is one of its authors and she says it’s a necessary response to the needs of all Americans.   Frank Clemente President Trump’s tax cut plan is proving to be a huge give away for corporations and the wealthy.  Frank Clemente offers a progressive plan for tax reform that can bring fairness to the American economy.   Wendy Sherman Bill Press talks with Ambassador Wendy Sherman on the possibility of war with Iran and the narrowing space for diplomacy under Donald Trump.   Jim Hightower How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system.

Bob Kuttner returns as your host this week with Frank Clemente, co-founder and executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness. Will the Republican tax bill passed last year turn out to be a political loser? What do ordinary Americans believe about the tax code? And what makes Donald Trump's tax cut different than those of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush? All this and more on this week's Provocations.

Letter to Congress urges members to sponsor the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act WASHINGTON, D.C. â??Today, more than 50 national organizations sent a letter urging members of Congress to co-sponsor the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act, which would overhaul the new international tax system put in place by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to ensure that multinational corporations are no longer allowed to pay a lower tax rate on their offshore profits than they pay on their domestic profits. The legislation is originally introduced by Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). As the letter explains, â??This bill would provide a simple, straightforward fix to one of the most egregious problems created by the TCJA. It would level the playing field for small and wholly domestic businesses by eliminating the deep discount that multinational companies get for shifting profits offshore and outsourcing jobs. â??The Trump-GOP tax law continues to encourage corporations to shift enormous profits offshore and outsource good-paying American jobs. The No Tax Cuts for Outsourcing Act should allow us to recover hundreds of billions of dollars in corporate taxes owed on those profits, which can be invested to create good jobs at home,â?? said Frank Clemente, executive director, Americans for Tax Fairness. â??This bill ends the backward incentives created by the new tax law to move jobs, profits, and operations overseas. The simple fix â?? to even up the rates â?? levels the playing field for domestic companies and reverses some of the worst damage caused by the new law,â?? said Gary Kalman, executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition. â??The No Tax Cuts for Outsourcing Act provides a comprehensive and much-needed reform of the international tax code. It would go a long way to cleaning up the mess created by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and stop offshore tax avoidance in its tracks,â?? said Alan Essig, executive director, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. A diverse range of organizations signed the letterâ??from the AFL-CIO to Small Business Majority, from MomsRising to The Arc of the United States, from the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd to Patriotic Millionaires. For more details on the legislation read the summary from Senator Whitehouse and Representative Doggett or a blog post from ITEP. ### Americans for Tax Fairness is a diverse coalition of 425 national and state endorsing organizations that collectively represent tens of millions of members. The organization was formed on the belief that the country needs comprehensive, progressive tax reform that results in greater revenue to meet our growing needs. ATF is playing a central role in Washington and in the states on federal tax-reform issues. The Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition is a non-partisan alliance of more than 100 state, national, and international organizations working toward a fair tax system that addresses the challenges of a global economy and promoting policies to combat the harmful impacts of corrupt financial practices. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that provides timely, in-depth analyses on the effects of federal, state, and local tax policies. ITEPâ??s mission is to ensure the nation has a fair and sustainable tax system that raises enough revenue to fund our common priorities, including education, health care, infrastructure and public safety ### Journalist Contact: ATF Contact: Colin Hernandez chernandez@americansfortaxfairness.org 818-390-0501 FACT Contact: Clark Gascoigne cgascoigne@thefactcoalition.org 202-810-1334 ITEP Contact Jenice Robinson jenice@itep.org 202-277-8750 Notes to Editors:

Let’s be honest, few people enjoy paying their taxes. But most of us understand that taxes serve a critical purpose—the public good. And since we all benefit from these things, you’d figure that we would all contribute. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. According to a recent report by Oxfam America, the top 50 American companies hold $1.4 trillion overseas to avoid paying taxes. These are called tax havens Music by: Keith Ellison and Podington Bear.

For this episode of Power Hour, Alex Epstein interviewed Dr. Frank Clemente on coal, and particularly its impact on human health. As a sociology professor, Dr. Clemente spent much of his career researching the relationship between industrialization and human health. He was a member of the graduate faculty at Pennsylvania State University and the former […]