Tag: wealth equality
Can Brazil convince the world to tax billionaire wealth?
The ambitious goal: To shove the case for taxing the wealth of our world’s wealthiest onto the world’s political stage.
Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and you. Which one pays taxes?
Leaked IRS data shows just how little billionaires pay in taxes.
New Analysis reveals how little the top .001% pay in taxes
“Looks like the biggest tax story of the year, if not the decade.”
A third of U.S. billionaire wealth gains since 1990 have come...
U.S. billionaire pandemic profit balloons to $4.56 trillion, a 55 percent increase.
Tax evasion and the 1%
“The richest 1% of U.S. households don’t report 21% of their income.”
The year of cheating the poor
The poorest among us are being cheated. They're being cheated out of the opportunity to share in the great prosperity to which they and their parents and grandparents all contributed.
‘Yes, exactly,’ say progressives after Pence warns democrats will ‘make rich...
“You have to be all sorts of twisted to think ‘making poor people more comfortable’ is a bad thing.”
“It’s going to be a billionaire Thanksgiving.” Wealth of US richest...
“The increases in billionaire wealth continue to defy gravity in the real economy where millions have lost their jobs, health, and livelihoods.”
It’s futile… We’re FEUDAL!!
If the economy crashes those FAT CATS can live off of their savings and bonuses for years... while YOU start selling apples on street corners!
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Trump’s Greenland takeover push draws scrutiny after Davos speech confusion and pressure campaign on...
At the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump called for “immediate negotiations” to acquire Greenland, ruled out using force, and repeatedly referred to the territory as “Iceland,” fueling international backlash and renewed questions about his conduct and strategy.
Experts warn Minnesota crackdown mirrors early stages of US civil war scenarios
Legal scholars and political scientists say the Trump administration’s escalating ICE operation, National Guard brinkmanship, and Insurrection Act threats in Minnesota closely resemble conditions identified in civil war simulations, raising alarms about constitutional collapse and violent state federal conflict.
Minnesota labor and communities move toward historic general strike amid ICE occupation of the...
A rapidly expanding coalition of unions, immigrant organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses is calling for a statewide economic shutdown on January 23 as opposition intensifies to ICE’s presence and tactics in Minnesota.
ICE memo claims power to force entry into homes without judicial warrants, triggering Fourth...
A leaked internal ICE memo obtained by the Associated Press asserts that agents may forcibly enter private homes using only administrative warrants, prompting whistleblower disclosures, congressional scrutiny, and warnings that the policy represents a covert attempt to bypass core constitutional protections.
Big Tech faces first social media addiction trial
The major social media addiction trials are being compared to historic litigation against big tobacco and opioid manufacturers, with potential for billions in damages and forced changes to platform designs.