Thursday, September 3, 2026

Tag: taxation

Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that

When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.

Colorado voters approve wealth tax measures to guarantee free school meals...

Colorado voters passed Propositions MM and LL to secure universal free school meals and strengthen SNAP administration by raising taxes on households earning at least $300,000.

Inherited wealth boom puts a spotlight on a global inequality emergency

As the G20 prepares to meet in Johannesburg, experts warn that more than $70 trillion set to change hands will entrench wealth gaps and threaten democracy without coordinated action.

Sanders blasts Tesla’s $1 trillion payday for Elon Musk

A shareholder proposal to grant Musk unprecedented wealth comes as inequality widens, taxes on corporations shrink, and workers face mounting economic strain.

Spain, Brazil and South Africa create alliance to tax super-rich at...

Oxfam said the alliance created at the UN conference shows the political will for taxation of the super-rich that countries must follow their lead and join forces.

The simple fix our tax code so urgently needs: Sunshine!

Income tax disclosure ought to be the law of the land, not a criminal offense.

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USPS delivery trucks. Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement

In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
National Guard troops. Photo: Sgt. Skyler Schendt (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

150 groups back think tank targeted by Trump’s $5 billion lawsuit threat

Trump's attorney gave the nonprofit four days to retract a report finding no crime-reduction effect from military deployments, or face a lawsuit seeking $5 billion in damages.
Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, one of the low-lying Pacific nations facing rising seas as the 1.5°C target slips away. Photo: mrlins, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. What...

It’s no longer possible to hold climate change to 1.5. But it’s not game over – it’s game on.
A Mojave desert tortoise, a species opponents said the data center project threatened. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Federal panel halts first data center planned for US public land

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.
Taiwan's Central Mountain Range, home to the Bunun and other Indigenous communities. Photo: Lord Koxinga, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Displaced by a typhoon, Taiwan’s Bunun people fear for the future of their culture

Nestled high on a mountain slope in southern Taiwan, Tengjhih was a key settlement of the Bunun Indigenous people. Today, however, little remains but memories of the hamlet.  Wild grass sprouts around abandoned houses. Stray dogs have made the empty streets their territory.