Tag: rich

"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."

Florida’s state government doesn’t call the shots. Florida’s rich do, and the continuing immensity of their after-tax incomes has turned out to matter far more to state policy than the well-being of Floridian families of modest means.

"A large share of consumers are essentially living on the razor's edge."

A higher minimum wage and unions can put corporate greed in check and raise wages throughout the labor market."

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

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

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