Monday, April 28, 2025

Tag: taxes

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.

How DOGE’s cuts to the IRS threaten to cost more than...

“When you hamstring the IRS, it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.”

Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his...

An extensive Washington Post investigation has revealed a very different reality—one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.

GOP pushes drastic cuts to Medicaid & Food Aid while proposing...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found the bill includes tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses, paired with cuts on the programs that support low-income Americans.

GOP’s $4.5 trillion tax giveaway: Slashing Medicaid and food stamps to...

House Republicans propose massive tax cuts for billionaires while gutting Medicaid, food assistance, and student loan programs, sparking outrage from lawmakers and advocacy groups.

Heard about buy-borrow-die? Meet buy-hold for decades-sell

We don’t need to just close the buy-borrow-die loophole. We desperately need to shut the buy-hold for decades-sell loophole just as firmly.

How billionaires have sidestepped a tax aimed at the rich

Lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to capture the kinds of income the rich often enjoy, but a host of billionaires have managed to avoid paying it.

Taxing Big Oil could boost UN loss and damage fund by...

Targeting the world’s seven largest publicly traded oil and gas companies—ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, Equinor, and ENI—the tax would hold major polluters accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis.

Segregation academies across the South are getting millions in taxpayer dollars

Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation—and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities.

“Billionaires and big corporations sharpening their knives”: Progressive tax groups sound...

With a Congress poised to push for sweeping tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, progressive organizations brace for a fierce battle to prevent policies that would deepen inequality and burden working Americans.

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Workers in 600 cities to mobilize against ‘billionaire takeover’ in massive May Day protests

Nationwide demonstrations set to challenge Trump administration’s pro-wealth policies, mass arrests, and immigrant crackdowns as unions and grassroots groups unite across all 50 states.

$28 trillion in climate damage traced to 111 top polluters, study shows

New research links fossil fuel giants to trillions in heat-driven economic losses, offering fresh momentum for climate liability lawsuits worldwide.

How to stop an autocrat

What can Americans learn from the citizens of Brazil, Poland, and South Korea who defeated the dragons threatening their democracies?

Rule Breakers: The compelling true story of Afghan girls who risked all to learn

Rule Breakers highlights the unique transformative power of education and raises awareness about the crucial importance of the right to education for girls in Afghanistan.

Nepo babies and the myth of the meritocracy

Society’s top tiers are rife with nepotism. It’s past time to expose just how much unearned wealth and power has been accrued by elites.