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The Public Anger at Corporate Health has Never Been Higher

Over 8,000 Americans, on average, die every day. Many of these Americans die unnecessarily. Their cause of death? The United States — our planet’s...

17.12.2024 10

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Sam Pizzigati

2024 Was a Great Year for the Super Rich, But What About the Rest of Us?

16.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Anger Explodes At Health Care CEOS – OpEd

Over 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care

13.12.2024 2

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

Was CEO's Murder a Killing in the Class War?

09.12.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Super-Rich Are Gobbling Up Earth’s Future and Our Leaders Are Letting Them

Billions upon billions give our world’s wealthiest an overabundance of mind-boggling political power, and right now they’re wielding that power to...

05.12.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Climate Finance Plan Leaders Won’t Consider at COP29? Tax the Rich

19.11.2024 4

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

In Baku, at the Latest Global Confab on Climate, Hand-Wringing Abounds

The world desperately needs to pull the plug on fossil fuels. So agree most of the official delegates from nearly 200 nations who have gathered this...

19.11.2024 10

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Sam Pizzigati

From Taxing the Rich to Defending Unions, the Best Defense Against Trump Will Be Offense

15.11.2024 4

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

No Time To Play Just Defense

With Donald Trump about to re-enter the White House and his sidekicks about to assume control over Congress, America’s progressives are once again...

12.11.2024 10

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One Person, One Vote, One Joke…On Democracy – OpEd

As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary

05.11.2024 4

Eurasia Review

Sam Pizzigati

One Person, One Vote, One Joke…on Democracy

As Americans, we hold dear several core democratic values, none more basic than “one person, one vote.” But our contemporary economic realities...

05.11.2024 10

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Sam Pizzigati

Will America Go To War Under Trump? – OpEd

By Jonathan Power A speech of General George Patton, a famous World War II warrior, has an uncanny resemblance to the philosophy of Donald Trump....

30.10.2024 9

Eurasia Review

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Can America’s ‘Self-Made’ Men Make A President? – OpEd

UBS, the giant Swiss private bank, has been tracking newcomers to the ranks of the world’s billionaire class for going on a decade now. The latest...

30.10.2024 8

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Can America’s ‘Self-Made’ Men Make a President?

This new Biden-era federal refusal to automatically do Big Tech’s bidding has energized billionaires once content to pay relatively little attention...

29.10.2024 9

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How Did Elon Musk Become The Richest Person On Earth? – OpEd

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes....

23.10.2024 10

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How Did Elon Musk Become the Richest Person on Earth?

Two of Musk’s commercial operations, Tesla and SpaceX, have received billions in American taxpayer support. The federal government, Politico points...

22.10.2024 10

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How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth

Now it's time to tax it back to where much of it came from.

19.10.2024 7

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Insurance Companies Are Not Good Neighbors to Have in a Climate Crisis

Major insurers are denying legitimate claims following extreme weather events while underwriting fossil fuels and lining their CEOs’ pocketbooks.

16.10.2024 7

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Two Words That Haunt So Many Hurricane Victims: “Claim Denied”

Do you know that you’re in good hands with Allstate? Or how about State Farm? Do you know that, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there? Of course...

15.10.2024 10

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Sam Pizzigati

Must Higher Education Always Genuflect Before America’s Highest Incomes?

America’s wealthiest have towered over the rest of us for quite some time now, and most all of us have over recent decades gained at least a little...

08.10.2024 20

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The Only Real Shortcut to Long-Term Security: Greater Equality

Have our world’s super rich become absolutely paranoid about the future? Or do they, deep down, understand that our exceedingly unequal global...

01.10.2024 10

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The Ultra-Rich Are Running Scared, for Good Reason

Budding entrepreneurs worldwide are devoting their time and talents to making our Earth as safe as possible for our planet’s top 1% that now holds...

29.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Could 2025 End Up A Nightmare For Our Tax-Averse Rich? – OpEd

We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on...

25.09.2024 8

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Could 2025 End Up a Nightmare for Our Tax-Averse Rich?

We haven’t of late had much in the way of political “consensus” here in the United States. But we do today have one consensus of sorts — on...

24.09.2024 20

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Let Our Tax-the-Rich Battle Begin!

If we play our cards right, we might finally see the wealthy start paying their fair share in 2025.

21.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Here's a Good Topic for Candidates to Debate: Taxing the Filthy Rich

“The wealthiest of the wealthy have figured out how to get richer and richer and richer and richer in ways that just don’t show up on a tax...

15.09.2024 20

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Are You Ready for Some Private Equity Football?

The billionaires who run the world’s most phenomenally profitable sport have just decided to “share the wealth” — with the greediest of their...

10.09.2024 20

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On Our Climate-Challenged Planet, Only Some Deaths Seem to Matter

Over 3,000 migrants fleeing from poverty and conflict, the Council on Foreign Relations recently noted, died last year trying to cross the...

03.09.2024 10

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When the Wealthy Perish at Sea We Mourn, But When the Poorest Perish We Yawn

3,000 deaths of migrants made barely a ripple in most of the world’s major news media. But this summer one single tragedy on the Mediterranean has...

01.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

A World Without Artworks That Auction Off for $80 Million?

Fine art has been a wonderful vehicle for “wealth signaling among the ultra-rich,” the Duke University sociologist Lisa Keister recently noted,...

26.08.2024 10

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The Younger Wealthy’s Alternative Approach to Investments Doesn’t Extend to Taxation

But both the younger and older rich want to pay as little as possible in taxes on the income their investments—in whatever category—end up...

17.08.2024 3

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The Coming Tax-The-Rich Rumble In Rio – OpEd

For the richest among us, life on Earth can sometimes get rather boring. But worry not for our world’s deepest pockets. At least five firms...

07.08.2024 3

Eurasia Review

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A Practical Prescription For Taxing Our World’s Richest – OpEd

Ever wonder why the divide between the world’s richest and everybody else keeps getting wider? Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s finest young...

11.07.2024 7

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How to Reduce the CEO-Worker Pay Gap? Impose Consequences

One promising possible consequence that U.S. lawmakers could pursue is a tax hike on corporations that pay their CEOs at 50 times or more than what...

20.06.2024 5

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Norway Isn’t Bowing to Threats of Capital Flight

Norway’s progressive lawmakers have put together a new “exit tax” that will have wealthy exiles paying a loophole-free exit levy on unrealized...

11.06.2024 6

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

The US Must Choose: Billionaires or Democracy

To limit the impact of our wealthiest on our politics, we simply must limit the wealth of our wealthiest.

06.06.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

Massachusetts Proves It Is Possible to Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share

With three months still left in the state fiscal year, the new Massachusetts millionaires tax has already generated $1.8 billion in added new revenue,...

26.05.2024 10

Common Dreams

Sam Pizzigati

South African President Backs National Health Plan For All – OpEd

By Lisa Vives South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is promoting a long-awaited new law that would provide universal health care free of charge for...

21.05.2024 50

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The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face? – OpEd

Once upon a time, back in the middle of the 20th century, the smallest theater on Broadway could have comfortably accommodated a get-together of all...

21.05.2024 60

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The Price We Pay for Bezos and Gates? Less Moral Societies

08.05.2024 20

Common Dreams

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The Well-Heeled And Our Personal Well-Being – OpEd

Just what exactly happens when a society becomes substantially more unequal, when a few become fabulously richer than the many? Defenders of our...

08.05.2024 40

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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.

25.04.2024 10

Common Dreams

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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...

24.04.2024 10

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 8

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

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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 5

Eurasia Review

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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 5

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 6

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 6

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