The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.
We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. An AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.
Facing the prospect of paying a bit more in taxes, billionaires are responding calmly and rationally: by calling themselves a marginalized, oppressed minority group being traumatized.
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War on the homefront
The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich. The tax on international billionaires is a huge win...
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To tax the richest Americans, we need to go after their wealth, not just their income
As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. ‘It’s a movement,’ says Patriotic Millionaires’ Chuck Collins. Washington isn’t the first state to pass a so-called millionaire tax, and it won’t be the last.
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