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Occupy Democrats Reports: Bill Clinton Blasts McConnell for His Koch Money Addiction
Clinton tore into McConnell for notoriously stating that the worst day of his life was when campaign finance laws forbid him from taking unregulated donations.

“How can you think that’s the worst thing that ever happened?” Clinton asked. “Only if you thought that the best thing that could ever happen was is if the Koch brothers and others could run black bag operations in every state in the country, and spend all this money driving people crazy and get them to stop thinking and never be found out.”

The former president was saddened by McConnell’s statements.

“If I look back on my life in politics… if the worst thing that ever happened to me was an attempt to limit black bag campaign contributions? What about 9/11? What about the financial meltdown? What about the farm crisis in the 70s and what about the middle of the country’s manufacturing base hollowing out in the 80’s? And what about in his native Kentucky, 70 percent of the coal miners losing their jobs before the EPA ever said a word, with no strategy to put them back to work in other ways? I mean, how can you possibly say the worst thing that ever happened to you was not being able to black bag unlimited amounts of money?”
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/watch-bill-clinton-blast-mitch-mcconnell-for-his-koch-money-addiction/

House GOP Bill Combines Worst Tax Break Ideas of 2014 for Half-a-Trillion Dollar Giveaway
September 18, 2014 03:15 PM
By Richard Phillips, Research Analyst at CTJ | Permalink |
With very few days left to legislate before the election, House Republicans are rushing through the Jobs for America Act, which includes several provisions to curb regulations as well as a grab bag of over $520 billion in tax breaks for businesses over the next decade. These tax cuts will do more to expand the deficit than expand employment.

The House already approved each of these tax breaks as separate pieces of legislation that went nowhere in the Senate. The first three of the breaks described below are usually temporarily extended as part of the “tax extenders” legislation that Congress usually enacts every couple of years. Making these breaks permanent, as this House bill would do, would destroy any hope that lawmakers will ever come to their senses and end this wasteful practice.

The five important tax provisions of the Jobs for America Act are as follows:

http://www.taxjusticeblog.org/archive/2014/09/house_gop_bill_combines_worst.php#.VBtaDy7Utps

Report: Walmart Workers Cost Taxpayers $6.2 Billion In Public Assistance

Walmart’s low-wage workers cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $6.2 billion in public assistance including food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing, according to a report published to coincide with Tax Day, April 15.

Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 400 national and state-level progressive groups, made this estimate using data from a 2013 study by Democratic Staff of the U.S. Committee on Education and the Workforce.

“The study estimated the cost to Wisconsin’s taxpayers of Walmart’s low wages and benefits, which often force workers to rely on various public assistance programs,” reads the report, available in full here.

“It found that a single Walmart Supercenter cost taxpayers between $904,542 and $1.75 million per year, or between $3,015 and $5,815 on average for each of 300 workers.”

Americans for Tax Fairness then took the mid-point of that range ($4,415) and multiplied it by Walmart’s approximately 1.4 million workers to come up with an estimate of the overall taxpayers’ bill for the Bentonville, Ark.-based big box giant’s staffers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-walmart-workers-cost-taxpayers-6-2-billion-in-public-assistance/