‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Will Concentrate Wealth Even More
Import taxes will be passed onto the consumer, while the rich will prosper from slashed taxes.
Taxes
The Harsh Unfairness of ‘Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell’
How this ongoing tax avoidance strategy is making an oligarchic concentration of America’s wealth ever more inevitable.
Raising Capital Gains Taxes Would Reduce Inequality Without Economic Costs
Contrary to conventional wisdom, increasing capital gains tax rates could modestly improve economic growth by reducing national debt and making investment cheaper.
‘Wherewithal to Pay’: Deconstructing the Canard That Perpetuates Our Worst Tax Loophole
Congressional apologists for the ultra-rich are peddling a falsehood to protect their benefactors from taxation.
An Inequality Tale of Two Capital Cities
In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time.
Bishop Barber: ‘Bowing is Not in Our DNA’
At a Capitol Hill rally, faith leaders called for a season of nonviolent moral dissent against Republican budget proposals that will deepen inequality.
At Wells Fargo, I Saw Firsthand How Excessive CEO Pay Harms Workers and Customers
Congress should use tax policy to rein in runaway CEO pay and encourage better business practices.
Does Billionaire Warren Buffett Pay Taxes at an Annual Rate Over 1,000 Percent?
The ‘reasoning’ of the prestigious Tax Foundation would have us believe just that.
Seattle Activists Win Excessive Compensation Tax to Fund Social Housing
This huge victory is one more example of how cities and states can beat the oligarchs and ‘Trump-proof’ their communities.