Some people have all the luck ... and an outrageously large share of the wealth the rest of us have created.
Inequality.org
Serious tax rates, apologists for our wealthy claim, can’t work. The stats suggest otherwise.
The Biden administration is working to undo contracting policy holdovers from the the Reagan administration in order to boost public investment benefits for workers and their communities.
If activists succeed in stopping the Hanscom Field expansion outside Boston, it will be the next “shot heard ’round the world” on a warming planet.
A new report reveals how stock buybacks have inflated CEO paychecks and widened pay gaps at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
Payday lending is inherently predatory and private equity is turbocharging its abuses, enlarging the burden it places on low-income individuals and borrowers of color.
Attacking inflation by hiking interest rates is not addressing the real situation and cause. We should be hiking tax rates on corporations engaged in price gouging and profiteering.
The United States sits in a wealth class all its own, boasting 39.2 percent of the world’s millionaires. China sits second, at 9.9 percent, with Japan third at 5.4 percent.
Happy tax times — for the rich — don’t come carved in stone. Tax laws can and do change. Public anger can increase the tax-auditing pressure on grand private fortunes.