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Sam Pizzigati__CounterPunch |
When the richest get a free ride, the rest of us get... flattened.
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...
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...
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...
America, a new report details, is minting millionaires at a record pace. Some 37 percent of the world’s millionaires, analysts at the wealth...
Some 17 local governments, the Washington, D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) details in a just-released report, are now...
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...
How many people in India are going hungry? Researchers working on the Global Hunger Index are currently tracking 125 nations across the world. Exactly...
Recent weeks have brought three more eye-popping glimpses of our world’s unconscionable concentration of income and wealth . . . The fabled luxury...
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...
Right-wing harrumphing about the foolishness of raising taxes on the rich rests on a relative handful of high-profile anecdotes that profoundly...
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...
How much — in our current 21st-century plutocratic climate — can our richest now get away with?
U.S. federal district court has just sentenced Charles Littlejohn to five years in prison. What exactly did Littlejohn — a contractor for the IRS...
The only major institution in American life that Americans trust less than Big Business just happens to be Congress, which has consistently refused to...
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.
Our contemporary societies do not have to revolve around the needs of the richest among us.
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,...
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...
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...
If May 1, 2028, arrives without signed contracts for America’s unionized auto workers, UAW president Shawn Fain has now made plain, these workers...
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...
If the world doesn’t continue moving boldly forward on confronting corporate and billionaire tax evasion, it would mean more than inadequate revenue...
Our current—and growing—public support for the labor movement has helped buoy a variety of recent union bargaining and organizing victories.
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...
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...
According to the company’s latest figures, Dollar General’s new CEO is making 702 times the pay of the company’s median employee.
Murdoch’s media properties have unrelentingly operated as bulwarks for elite wealth and privilege, but E.W. Scripps offered a different model.
Unionized workers are showing the rest of us that the rich don’t always have to get richer — at everyone else’s expense.
Our young whizzes will be making the rich richer for decades to come.