Friday, April 19, 2024

Tag: taxes

Dems blast House GOP for bill adding $114 billion to deficit...

"Once again," said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, Republicans are "putting politics over poor and working people."

This graph shows where surging corporate profits increasingly go: Tax havens

The global corporate minimum tax would ensure all companies worldwide pay a minimum tax of 15% and would require higher taxes of large companies in countries where they have customers.

Hypocrisy abounds as PPP loans to 1% forgiven, while Biden seeks...

Word has leaked out that the Biden administration is about to enter negotiations with Big Pharma, for the express intent of shifting the cost of COVID vaccines and lifesaving antiviral medications, to the patient. 

Ten ways billionaires avoid taxes on an epic scale

After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.

‘Tax the Rich,’ say millionaire activists protesting at Davos amid record...

"Any millionaire who has sense enough to see that our current economic model is failing will support these protests."

Still another reason for taxing the rich

America’s wealthiest, new ProPublica data suggest, may be even richer than we thought.

Rep. Jamaal Brown introduces legislation that will propose income tax reform...

The introduced tax code for the nearly 700 billionaires would raise $1 trillion over ten years, according to a press release.

About that $900 you gave Pentagon contractors

This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?

America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US...

A new report reveals that the very richest pay lower rates than the merely rich.

‘Too distraught’

My confessions of a failed tax resister.

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US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows

This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.

Supreme silence: High court decision curtails protest rights, stifling voices in the South

As the case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings, the national discourse on the limits of free speech and the right to protest continues to evolve.

Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 riot cases amid concerns...

This law is now at the center of a legal battle concerning its suitability for punishing those who stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election results.

New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s, fueling wealth inequality

This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.

Missouri Republican Attorney General Bailey sues Media Matters using consumer law to censor the...

An analysis of Mo. Attorney General Andrew Bailey's bogus allegations against Media Matters.