Tag: income inequality

"If there is one lesson to be learnt from the global investigation, it is that inequality is always a political choice."

We most certainly can. We have history on our side.

All relationships, not just romantic couplings, tend to be twisted by wealth.

The total collective wealth of American billionaires is "nearly double the $2.1 trillion in total wealth held by the bottom half of the population, or 165 million Americans."

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.

Not only would a wealth tax raise revenue and help bring the economy back into balance, but it would also protect our democracy by reducing the influence of the super-rich on our political system.

Trump’s attack on regulation is just another form of trickle-down economics – where the gains go the top, and the risks and losses trickle down.

The corporate push to replace real pay with cheap “psychic income" is on the rise.

The richest 2-5%, those Americans with an average net worth of about $2.5 million, accumulated enough wealth in 2017 to pay for the safety net FOUR TIMES.

Why is it so hard for people with wealth and power to admit all this?