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In Berkeley, New York, Paris, and Vatican City, it’s become central to political battles—and religious concerns.

Unprecedented wealth concentration – and the unbridled power that comes with it – distorts our democracy and drives societal and economic tensions. The Five & Dime tax would would break up concentrated wealth and generate substantial new revenue.

A proposed wealth tax on Canada’s richest 0.6% could raise hundreds of billions of dollars — enough to tackle housing, transit, and care. The sheer scale of what a tiny slice of billionaire wealth could fund is staggering.

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.

There are now 813 billionaires with $5.7 trillion in wealth, making the ten-figure club even more powerful economically and politically. We need a progressive taxation system to reverse inequality.

While most Americans predominantly live off the income they earn from a job—income that is taxed all year, every year—the very richest households live lavishly off capital gains that may never be taxed.

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.

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.