Meet Congressman Wall Street
Congressman Wall Street believes Money Managers' income should not be subject to Federal Income Tax. A Money Manager and Tax Lawyer actually disagree! He started out on Wall Street -- and that’s where Pat Toomey’s heart remains. In fact, Toomey started his career as a high-flying derivatives trader in Manhattan, running a "$21 billion derivatives trading operation" and supervising sales and trading in New York, London and Tokyo. This was the 1980s – the Michael Milken, Carl Icahn, Gordon Gekko, greed-is-good era on Wall Street. And Pat Toomey fell in love with it all, including the jet set’s perks. He learned to fly ...
More Extreme Than Rick Santorum
How much do you know about Pat Toomey, the man who wants to be the next U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania? Are you among the targets of Toomey’s own efforts to portray himself as the champion of every hard-working Pennsylvanian struggling to make ends meet? Would it surprise you to learn that Toomey was one of the earliest, most fervent and consistent backers of every extreme “free market” economic proposal that wrecked Wall Street in 2008 and brought our financial system to the brink? (If so, please read the “Congressman Wall Street” section of this web site) And what would you say if ...
Pat Toomey: No Friend to Working People
Pat Toomey says we should have let car companies, insurers and banks fail. If you ask Pat Toomey, he'll claim to be a friend of the little guy. That's the Toomey myth. Toomey loves to talk about growing up in a "blue collar, working class family" -- or about running a small business (sports bars) in the Lehigh Valley. Toomey paints himself into a nearly bucolic, all-American picture. But the fact remains that Toomey has repeatedly turned his back on middle-class families in order to serve Wall Street special interests --- and millionaires. As it turns out, "Blue Collar Pat" is really every millionaire's ...
TOOMEY ON JOBS
Pat Toomey espouses a government doctrine he calls “do no harm”, but the votes he cast while in Congress harmed a lot of average working Pennsylvanians.
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TOOMEY ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Toomey talks about protecting the environment, but he's received a 0% rating from the League of Conservation Voters.
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TOOMEY ON THE ECONOMY
The record shows that Pat Toomey was instrumental to the initial events that brought our economy to near-collapse.
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