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The Flat-Taxers Are Winning the Class War

When the richest get a free ride, the rest of us get... flattened.

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Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Are The Flat Tax Folks Winning…Or Have They Already Won? – OpEd

What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be...

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Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

To Tackle Inequality, Start With Nonprofit Kingpins

Why not press for legislation that denies nonprofit status—and the tax breaks that come with it—to nonprofits that pay their top execs at any rate...

08.04.2024 5

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Meet the Secretive Rich Funding Efforts to Keep Others Poor

With both millionaires and homelessness on the rise in the U.S., right-wing donors are bankrolling a nationally coordinated move to end experiments in...

03.04.2024 30

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Shouldn’t Every American Enjoy The Luxury Of A Roof? – OpEd

America, a new report details, is minting millionaires at a record pace. Some 37 percent of the world’s millionaires, analysts at the wealth...

03.04.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

How Luxury Real-Estate Can Have Redeeming Social Value for the Rest of Us

Some 17 local governments, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) details in a just-released report, are now...

25.03.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Out-Gilding the Gilded Age

By the start of the 2020s, a light tax touch on America’s most financially favored had left America’s richest 0.01% with 10% of the nation’s...

12.03.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Gilded Age Then, The Gilded Age Now – OpEd

How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly...

12.03.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Can Brazil Convince The World To Tax Billionaire Wealth? – OpEd

Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world’s unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled luxury...

05.03.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Do High Taxes On The Rich Make Any Sense? – OpEd

Home sweet home. For Jeff Bezos, one of our planet’s three richest human beings, the state of Washington neatly fit that description for nearly 30...

27.02.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Bezos’ Move Isn’t an Argument for Not Taxing Local Billionaires

Right-wing harrumphing about the foolishness of raising taxes on the rich rests on a relative handful of high-profile anecdotes that profoundly...

26.02.2024 9

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Next Billionaire Thing: Hunting Humans? – OpEd

Collecting signatures takes energy, and young people in Switzerland seem to have an abundance of just that. The young who belong to the youth wing of...

22.02.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

On the Billionaires Who Would Hunt and Kill Humans for Sport

How much — in our current 21st-century plutocratic climate — can our richest now get away with?

19.02.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Penalty For Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars – OpEd

U.S. federal district court has just sentenced Charles Littlejohn to five years in prison. What exactly did Littlejohn — a contractor for the IRS...

07.02.2024 3

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

How to Restore Trust in the US? Tax the Rich

The only major institution in American life that Americans trust less than Big Business just happens to be Congress, which has consistently refused to...

16.01.2024 8

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Billionaire Next Door Driving Up Housing Costs for Everyone

The rich are busy turning the 20th-century dream of owning your own home into the grubby 21st-century reality of renting your own home forever.

06.01.2024 9

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Main Thing Trickling Down From the Wealthy on Everest Is Trash

Our contemporary societies do not have to revolve around the needs of the richest among us.

19.12.2023 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Outrageously Paid CEOs Are Making Us Sick—Literally

his past summer the Wall Street Journal took a crack at listing the world’s ten highest-paid corporate CEOs. Nine of the ten, the Journal found,...

02.12.2023 8

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Future Can Do Better Than Air Taxis for the Super Rich

Just imagine if all the investments and expertise going into turning our skies into air-taxi lanes for the richest among us were instead going into...

25.11.2023 6

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Our Richest Can Move To Avoid Taxes, But Can They Hide? – OpEd

Jeff Bezos is moving. The second-richest human being on the face of the Earth — with a net worth of some $166 billion — has been calling the...

17.11.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

The UAW Is Leading the World Toward a May Day to Remember

If May 1, 2028, arrives without signed contracts for America’s unionized auto workers, UAW president Shawn Fain has now made plain, these workers...

05.11.2023 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Close The Audit Gap – OpEd

In 2020, U.S. households annually making over $1 million faced fewer tax audits than households with incomes low enough to qualify for the Earned...

02.11.2023 3

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

The World Must Fix Tax Disparity or Suffer Catastrophic Consequences

If the world doesn’t continue moving boldly forward on confronting corporate and billionaire tax evasion, it would mean more than inadequate revenue...

28.10.2023 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Americans’ Approval of Unions Could Help Turn the Tide Against Inequality

Our current—and growing—public support for the labor movement has helped buoy a variety of recent union bargaining and organizing victories.

23.10.2023 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Share The Wealth Vs. Waste The Wealth – OpEd

In 2020, the Trump tem’s last full year, U.S. households annually making over $1 million faced fewer tax audits than households with incomes low...

18.10.2023 30

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Time For A General Strike On Dollar General – OpEd

President Biden recently walked a picket line in solidarity with striking auto workers. An amazing sight. What could he do for an encore? He could...

10.10.2023 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Needed: A General Strike Aimed at Dollar General

According to the company’s latest figures, Dollar General’s new CEO is making 702 times the pay of the company’s median employee.

02.10.2023 2

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Not All Media Titans Were as Dastardly as Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch’s media properties have unrelentingly operated as bulwarks for elite wealth and privilege, but E.W. Scripps offered a different model.

23.09.2023 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

UAW Strike Gives Us New Hope for the Working Class

Unionized workers are showing the rest of us that the rich don’t always have to get richer — at everyone else’s expense.

18.09.2023 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Grand Fortunes Distort Where Great Talent Goes

Our young whizzes will be making the rich richer for decades to come.

12.09.2023 9

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

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