Tag: taxes
As CTC ends, study says monthly payments boost baby brain activity
"Policy impacts biology. It's past time we made the Child Tax Credit increases permanent."
Two sides, same coin: Suppressing votes, cutting rich people’s taxes
America’s national media typically pay little attention to the moves the nation’s state lawmakers make. Not this year. State legislative battles have...
Report: Taxing the world’s richest would raise US $2.52 trillion a...
A new analysis, “Taxing Extreme Wealth,” by the Fight Inequality Alliance, Institute for Policy Studies, Oxfam, and Patriotic Millionaires found a shocking...
What’s that ‘surtax’ doing in Build Back Better?
The new Build Back Better surtax might just turn out to be a giant first tax step toward the more equal America that we all so desperately need.
The United States of tax havens
The United States, where countless corrupt billionaires and dictators have stashed their loot, is not a single tax haven, but many separate tax havens.
Watch: Bernie Sanders argues ‘we must end the greed of Big...
"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."
US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic
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.
Forget the huddled masses. Bring us billionaires.
The land of the free and the home of the brave has become a tax haven for the vile and the vicious.
The rich are different—richer than us and far greedier
There is a class war raging, one that’s being fought by the ruling class of billionaires and millionaires against the rest of us.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.