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In one, lawmakers are taxing the rich. In the other, they're rushing the rich a free pass at tax time.

The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

Overall, the world’s 500 richest ended 2024 worth a combined $9.8 trillion. Some 34 percent of the $1.5 trillion they gained over the course of the year came in the five weeks after Donald Trump’s election.

Taxpayers like himself, Boot notes, are subsidizing the “fire hose of falsehoods” that now appear on X, the former Twitter, the social media app that Musk bought for $44 billion two years ago. Our tax dollars have essentially supersized our world’s

The greediest owners in pro sports are now welcoming in the greed kings of high finance

A bold new proposal from the economist Gabriel Zucman is gaining prime-time backing

Not on this planet. The wealthiest of our wealthy, a just-released report from Americans for Tax Fairness points out, are doing their best to keep these good times — for America’s rich — rolling.

Norway, now maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth.

We're going to need to think big ... but maybe start small

A frightening share of our richest don’t necessarily think so