Tag: wealth
Why it’s essential to scrap the cap
“The very wealthy people are not paying their share. Scrap the cap.”
Is it wrong to have too much money? Your answer may...
We’re continuing to study how cultural values, social systems and moral intuitions shape people’s judgments of fairness and excess—from views of wealth and ambition to knowledge and AI computing power.
Trump may be blowing the economy up on purpose
Working-class Americans should view a purposefully engineered recession as blatant aggression by the ownership class.
The Oligarchic Dozen: Top 12 US billionaires amass $2 trillion in...
The wealth of America’s richest 12 billionaires has doubled since 2020, raising concerns about democracy, climate, and economic inequality.
Undocumented immigrants pay higher tax rates than top 1% in most...
New study reveals that undocumented immigrants pay nearly $100 billion in taxes annually, contributing more to state and local revenues than the wealthiest Americans in most states, while being excluded from the social programs they help fund.
New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s,...
This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.
Billionaires’ wealth skyrockets by 114% amid global poverty surge
This extraordinary accumulation of wealth comes at a time when nearly 5 billion people globally grapple with the challenges of inflation, war, and the climate crisis, slipping further into poverty.
U.S. billionaire wealth surges as COVID-19 pandemic worsens
As percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980.
In divided Alaska, the choice is between paying for government or...
Alaskans will soon confront the dramatic effects of Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s vetoes of US$444 million from the state operating budget of $8.3 billion,...
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Why is Trump slowly losing his mind? Epstein bombshell coming, jail cell awaits him
Right now, Trump is operating like a madman, ripping and tearing our democracy apart and having the Supreme Court turn our Constitution into nothing more than a useless wad of paper.
Judge blocks ICE retaliation in Minnesota as protests escalate and federal force looms
A federal injunction curbing ICE conduct follows the killing of a legal observer, mounting allegations of constitutional violations, and threats of military deployment under Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Why are immigration ‘judges’ working for DOJ aka the PROSECUTION?
“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States. It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave. It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” –Federal Immigration Judge Ubaid ul-Haq
How much ego-serving cataclysm must MAGA Trumpism wreak—before fierce adversaries resist?
Looking older, bedraggled and more deranged, Trump is running out of laws, rules, thresholds, institutions, alliances and Congressionally-mandated programs to burn down.
Major study finds Americans bear overwhelming cost of Trump’s tariffs
An analysis of more than 25 million shipment records shows US consumers and businesses pay 96 percent of tariff costs, contradicting repeated claims that foreign exporters foot the bill.