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Executive Pay Of Austerity Advocates Saves Companies More Than $1 Billion Via Tax Loophole
“Companies in the Fix the Debt coalition, which advocates for federal austerity policies, qualified for $1 billion or more in tax breaks tied to executive pay packages from 2009 to…
Liberal Groups: Corporations Take Advantage of Compensation Loophole
“Corporations backing a broad deal to reduce deficits have racked up millions of dollars of savings from the tax treatment of executive compensation, according to a new study from liberal…
Lewis: Fix the Debt? Try Fixing CEO Pay
“Fix The Debt, the group pushing Congress to do something about runaway deficit spending, is loaded with highly compensated CEOs who know more about prosperity than austerity. “They want to…
Executives Pushing Budget Cuts Rake In Millions From Tax Loophole
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Campaign for America’s Future finds that 90 member firms took in somewhere between $953 million and $1.6 billion through the…
“Fix the Debt” CEOs Enjoy Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay
Two important progressive organizations, the Institute for Policy Studies and the Campaign for America’s Future, today jointly released Fix the Debt” CEOs Enjoy Taxpayer-Subsidized Pay . . . The report…
‘Fix the Debt’ Corporations Take at Least $953 Million in Taxpayer Subsidies
A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies and Campaign for America’s Future shows that the CEOs who run the 90 corporations in the ‘”Fix the Debt” coalition, which advocates for…
‘Deficit Hawk’ CEOs Pocket Hundreds of Millions with Tax Loopholes
“The performance pay loophole serves as a critical subsidy for excessive compensation,” says the report. “The larger the executive payout, the less the corporation pays in taxes. And average taxpayers…
Challenging Einstein: Kerry’s ‘New’ Diplomacy in the Middle East
So there is talk once again of a “new” US initiative in Israel-Palestine diplomacy. We have got a new secretary of state. John Kerry is shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah. Hopes are supposed to be…
