Republican lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich while helping to boost middleclass americans. Loopholes lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth. We can use that money doubt more families pay for childcare and send her kids to college. Joining us to discuss the speech, congressman Keith Ellison of the house progressive caucus, longtime consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader, phylllis bennis of the institute for policy studies, Pulitzer Prize winnng tax analyst David Cay Johnston, and lisa graves of the center for media democracy. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has delivered his sixth state of the Union Address, outlining his domestic and Foreign Policy agenda for his final two years in office. On the Foreign Policy front, obama defended his decision to begin normalizing relations with cuba, called for congress
Time for many. But tonight, we turn the page. In his state of the Union Address, president obama declares the shadow of crisis has passed while calling on republican lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich while helping to boost middleclass americans. Loopholes lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth. We can use that money doubt more families pay for childcare and send her kids to college. Joining us to discuss the speech, congressman Keith Ellison of the house progressive caucus, longtime consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader, phylllis bennis of the institute for policy studies, Pulitzer Prize winnng tax analyst David Cay Johnston, and lisa graves of the center for media democracy. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has delivered his sixth state of the Union Address, outlining his domestic and Foreign Policy agend
Time for many. But tonight, we turn the page. In his state of the Union Address, president obama declares the shadow of crisis has passed while calling on republican lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich while helping to boost middleclass americans. Loopholes lead to inequality by allowing the top 1 to avoid paying taxes on their accumulated wealth. We can use that money doubt more families pay for childcare and send her kids to college. Joining us to discuss the speech, congressman Keith Ellison of the house progressive caucus, longtime consumer advocate and former president ial candidate ralph nader, phylllis bennis of the institute for policy studies, Pulitzer Prize winnng tax analyst David Cay Johnston, and lisa graves of the center for media democracy. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has delivered his sixth state of the Union Address, outlining his domestic and Foreign Policy agend