Tag: taxes
Don’t go small on infrastructure
By raising taxes on the wealthy and redirecting other public resources, we can meet everyone’s needs and strengthen our economy.
How Uncle Sam can encourage corporations to be more patriotic
By using the power of the public purse, can we encourage federal contractors to be upstanding corporate citizens?
Democratic senators call for investigation of tax avoidance by the ultrawealthy
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse demanded an investigation into how the rich use “legal tax loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of income taxes.”
11 charts on taxing the wealthy and corporations
The raging debate over public investment financing has created a huge opening for long overdue fair tax reforms.
The simple fix our tax code so urgently needs: Sunshine!
Income tax disclosure ought to be the law of the land, not a criminal offense.
Patriotic Millionaires urge global leaders to combat tax avoidance through wealth...
"We need to foster a recovery beyond regressing to the same-old, same-old. We need to tax the rich.”
FDR must be smiling
Biden’s plan to create jobs and tax the rich is a good deal bolder than it looks at first glance.
Growing calls to ‘audit the ultra-rich’ as Yellen says tax dodging...
"We can start closing this gap next week. Pass my Stop CHEATERS Act and audit the ultra-rich."
President Biden’s Tax-the-Rich plan: Just how bold?
A little history can help us with the answer.
What’s driving the tax games corporations play?
To make sure corporations pay their fair tax share, we need to make sure individuals are paying theirs.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.