Still Another Reason for Taxing the Rich
America’s wealthiest, new ProPublica data suggest, may be even richer than we thought.
America’s wealthiest, new ProPublica data suggest, may be even richer than we thought.
Northwestern professor Jeffrey Winters says he knows how to get billionaires to jump off the Forbes list of richest Americans.
Buffalo’s baristas give us hope. Buffalo’s pols, meanwhile, are giving oligarchy our hard-earned tax dollars.
The workers who put food on our tables face poverty, deportation, and extreme heat. These are policy choices—and they can be changed.
America’s pre-existing condition when the pandemic hit was inequality. That’s not a “normal” we should return to.
If global oligarchy ‘business as usual ’ survives the Ukraine war, the rest of us will end up big losers.
Building a more powerful people’s movement for economic democracy will require the spread of a more expansive view of democracy, one that moves past individual rights and into the realm of shared responsibilities.
The recommendations would reduce inequality by setting high-road standards for federal contractors, closing tax loopholes for the rich, canceling student debt, cracking down on price-gougers, and building worker power.
Corporations are using “inflation” as a cover to hike prices and record record profits. We’ve got the proof.