Tag: taxes

We’re finally debating that question.

The United States, where countless corrupt billionaires and dictators have stashed their loot, is not a single tax haven, but many separate tax havens.

"Why is it that the pharmaceutical industry is able to charge the American people the highest prices on the planet for prescription drugs? Because their greed goes unchallenged in Washington, D.C."

Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.

The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.

There is a class war raging, one that’s being fought by the ruling class of billionaires and millionaires against the rest of us.

Now families like mine, and every other family with kids, get life-changing help deposited directly into their bank accounts.

It's far below the level of progressivity the United States embraced in the middle of the 20th century—when wealthier individuals paid a much higher share of their income in taxes than the poor.

"Corporations will continue to play international shell games with their profits while moving American jobs overseas."

Our political leaders have been aware of the stepped-up basis loophole for decades, yet have done nothing.