Tag: rich

"The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues."

Silicon Valley’s wealthy elites have been secretly buying up land in one of California’s poorest counties to build a new city from the ground up. Who will stop them?

Britain and the United States were once the top two—have times changed?

While billionaire wealth surged to an all-time high, around 165 million people were thrown into poverty during the pandemic.

The new country hit song, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” embodies the GOP’s narrative of white male resentment. But collectivism and an embrace of racial diversity are far more powerful and popular.

It’s going to run out of money before you can ever receive it if the rich don’t start paying their fair share.

"They can afford to pay their fair share in taxes."

Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments.

The poor don’t gain, in short, when societies ignore the rich.

"These few billionaires together have 'investment emissions' that equal the carbon footprints of entire countries like France, Egypt, or Argentina."