Tag: taxes
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.
House moderates move to force vote as ACA tax credits near...
Four Republicans join Democrats in discharge petition amid looming premium hikes for millions.
Trump’s top tax official built career helping billionaires dodge taxes
Ken Kies, a longtime lobbyist for major corporations and the ultra-wealthy, now leads the Treasury’s tax policy office under Trump—just as Republicans push for new tax cuts benefiting the richest Americans.
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.
Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?
While politicians regularly partner with business, when should they collaborate with grassroots movements?
Blaming the poor while the rich sneak off with the welfare
Republicans say they only want to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. To do this they're wasting lives, defrauding their constituents, and abusing the privilege of leadership.
Trump and Republicans want taxpayers to fund their pet project: Private...
A proposal for a nationwide federally supported school voucher program is just another of President Trump’s schemes to give advantages to the rich at the expense of the rest of us.
How the rich get richer: Evade taxation, grease trillion-dollar tax breaks,...
In class and status-conscious, materialistic America (was it ever otherwise?), scoring net worth is easier than figuring out messy election results.
More than a dozen US officials sold stocks before Trump’s tariffs...
Ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.
Trump-Musk plan to gut the IRS could cost US public $30...
Analysis shows dismantling IRS enforcement would benefit wealthy tax evaders, burden working families, and deepen inequality.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.