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Tax justice activists are pursuing the tax scofflaws. To escape taxes, it may not be enough for Jeff Bezos to move to Florida. He may have to move to Mars.

Rupert Murdoch made the world safe for grand fortune. E.W. Scripps had a better idea.

Britain and the United States once competed for that honor. Times have changed.

“The company has promised to create 2,500 new jobs that it says will pay an average annual wage of just $45,000 a year,” Good Jobs First points out, “while reaping subsidies of $3.4 million per job.”

Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.

This billionaire’s legacy? Two-thirds of all Italians between the ages of 18 and 34 are now living at home with their parents because Italy’s “miserable starting salaries mean young Italians generally cannot afford their own place.

Last week brought the alarming news that three Kentucky-based McDonald’s franchises had kids as young as 10 working at 62 stores in four different states. Some of these under-working age children were working as late as 2 a.m.

Congress hiked the nation’s top-bracket tax rate to around 90% for two decades to see the emergence in the United States of the world’s first mass middle class.

He redefined economics, forging a way forward that does not include the destruction of our environment for economic gain

Instead of hiking interest rates, we could be hiking tax rates on excess profits and wealth.