Taxes

Giving preferential tax treatment to a privileged class of citizens violates the principles of both democracy and capitalism. An annual levy on wealth over $250,000 could begin returning us to...

Activists are taking on the billionaire financiers who are driving inequality and corrupting our politics. [caption id="attachment_10298" align="alignright" width="300"] The growing Hedge Clippers campaign is pioneering new strategies to prevent...

Cutting all taxes on investments was a bad idea sixteen years ago and remains a bad idea today.

Bernie and Hillary have each laid out detailed plans to reduce inequality through reforming the tax code. Here’s where they stand.

The tax treatment of the ultra wealthy might be the true scandal.

We all contribute to the creation of wealth. Yet we let the wealth created settle in the pockets of a few. A simple but fundamental change in the source of...

The facts on state-by-state corporate tax avoidance reveal that people across the country are losing revenues that should be going to education and infrastructure. By Paul Buchheit [caption id="attachment_9650" align="alignright"...

  It sounds crazy, but a major distraction in our debate about inequality in America today is inequality itself. I’m referring here to the concept of inequality in the abstract....

Congress is gutting vital programs for the poor while heaping billions of dollars of relief on a few wealthy families.