I’ll take the sentiments from both Oliver Anthony and Billy Bragg to honor working class narratives, channel feelings of disempowerment, and push for a more economically just country. Starting with better taxing rich men, wherever they live.
The Pandora Papers show the US to be a global center of illicit financial flows. Building the political will to curb this requires action in national capitals and global institutions, and also in all the jurisdictions where wealth is hidden.
How do billionaire team owners end up paying lower tax rates not only than their millionaire players, but even the person serving beer in the stadium? Let’s go to the highlights.
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Instead of debating tweaks at the edges of our tax system, what we should be doing is stretching ourselves to imagine a world where billionaires are impossible.
Some of the wealthiest Americans use a strategy called Buy, Borrow, Die to dramatically reduce their tax bills while their fortunes continue to grow.
As G7 finance ministers meet in London, we have a chance to get multinational businesses to pay their fair share
The White House is proposing substantial increases in personal income tax rates for those earning about a half-million dollars and higher tax rates on large corporations. Republicans are aghast.
Even in a pandemic, 64 billionaires have seen incredible gains from the major league sports teams they own.
Thigpenn says the path forward means reversing public spending priorities that direct resources away from low-income communities — priorities that create tax structure that makes low-income communities in California scramble to fund schools.
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