Taxation

We only build — and sustain — more equal societies when we confront the economic dynamics that generate inequality in the first place.

At the city, state, and federal levels, momentum is building to tax corporations with extreme gaps between CEO and worker pay.

A decade after bonus-chasing executives like Angelo Mozilo crashed the economy, we need tax incentives to push companies to narrow the gaps between CEO and worker pay.

Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't pay $1 more in new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.