Polly Cleveland: Grover Norquist Is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes
Sales taxes — of whatever stripe — fall harder on poorer than richer customers. And they squeeze smaller retailers more than big ones.
Articles on Inequality and Legislation
Sam Pizzigati: A Billionaire Obsesses, Our Politics Regresses
How much can a billion dollars buy? The undivided attention of America’s entire political and chattering classes. Case in point: our ongoing national fixation on debt and deficit.
A $2.8 Trillion Prescription for Global Renewal
Some 40,000 people a day are dying from poverty, the London advocacy group Share the World’s Resources details in a comprehensive new report, and austerity regimes are only compounding the world’s suffering. What’s needed? A “wholesale reform of the world economy.”
How Corporations Built to Loot Lobby to Win
Some of America’s most flush corporations are demanding a tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore. But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover. After the 2004 tax holiday, a new report documents, 58 major companies that benefited from the holiday shed almost 600,000 workers.
Chuck Collins: No Tax Holiday for Corporate Job Destroyers
A powerful coalition of U.S.-based global companies is lobbying hard for a “tax holiday” on offshore profits. Congress should say “no!”
Sam Pizzigati: A Call from Labor: Ban Big Bank Stock Options
Federal agencies are now preparing new regulations for enforcing the banker pay reforms enacted last summer. These new regs, says the AFL-CIO, need to prohibit the ‘incentive’ that’s still stuffing bankers with billions.
Chuck Collins: A Decade of Magical Tax Cut Thinking
Republican leaders in Congress have a one-point program for whatever ails the nation: cut taxes for millionaires and large corporations.