Monday, September 28, 2026

Tag: taxes

‘Tax the Rich,’ say millionaire activists protesting at Davos amid record...

"Any millionaire who has sense enough to see that our current economic model is failing will support these protests."

Still another reason for taxing the rich

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

Rep. Jamaal Brown introduces legislation that will propose income tax reform...

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

About that $900 you gave Pentagon contractors

This tax season, I’d rather fund green jobs and disease control than jets that spontaneously combust. Wouldn’t you?

America’s top 15 earners and what they reveal about the US...

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

‘Too distraught’

My confessions of a failed tax resister.

Taking aim at billionaire tax avoiders, Biden proposes minimum tax for...

After ProPublica's Secret IRS Files showed how the richest avoid taxes — often by minimizing income and relying on their wealth — the Biden administration unveiled a plan that could raise hundreds of billions in tax revenues. Its fate is uncertain.

Sanders introduces legislation to impose a 95 percent windfall tax on...

"The time has come for Congress to work for working families and demand that large, profitable corporations make a little bit less money and pay their fair share of taxes.”

America’s inherited wealth dynasties park trillions out of reach of taxation

It is equally important to understand how multi-generational wealth dynasties are deploying dynasty trusts and other elaborate tax dodges to sequester trillions and dodge inheritance taxes.

In a single year, $1.78 trillion was stolen from the working...

And much of the money workers should be getting is instead being pumped up to the top 0.3% of income earners.

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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy

The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
A press briefing at the White House. Photo: The White House

Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Photo: FEMA/Bill Koplitz, via Wikimedia Commons

The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...

If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
The Knesset, Israel's parliament building, in Jerusalem. Photo: Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons

Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?

New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.