Tag: tax breaks for the wealthy
When you’re a billionaire, your hobbies can slash your tax bill
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and you. Which one pays taxes?
Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.
New Analysis reveals how little the top .001% pay in taxes
“Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade.”
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”
“Liberals” need to nip this massive corporate tax break in the...
This tax-break not only lets the giant, multinational corporations get away with doing what Trump did, it hands them a huge, beautiful reward for doing it.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
Dear Joe
The time has come for a coalition, and that means being open, and honest, and doing the best for the country. So do it.