U.S. Government and Business Leaders on Financial Transactions Taxes
Selected quotes reflecting a range of views on the issue from U.S. officials and business leaders.
Mind-Reading Technology Threatens Our Liberties
Exposing the human brain to these devices creates physical and political risks.
Fat Cat
A nine-figure income may seem like a lot, but I’ll take nine lives.
What If We Were Judged by Our Jails?
The American prison population quadrupled in just the last 25 years.
Who Wants to Die for Karzai?
The cost of maintaining each soldier in this faraway land is roughly a million dollars a year.
Our National Pastime Is Too Brutal
Football uses its combatants like Kleenex, then discards them with hardly a thought.
My Cat is No Fat Cat
My cat is on the pudgy side, but she is nothing like our titans of finance. Let’s stop maligning our feline friends by comparing them to greedy, evil Wall Street execs.
Iran Sanctions are Counterproductive
Gasoline sanctions strengthen hardliners’ arguments and undercut moderates’ calls for reform.
Health-Care Reform Won’t Cure this Sick System
Fewer than half of U.S. workers get paid sick days.
Bye-bye, Dubai
What does it mean for the global economy when even a city of oil-rich opulence can’t escape the recession?
Dubai
We’ve piled up a $60 billion debt and willl only pay our creditors when we’re good and ready.
In 2010, Let’s Treat our Domestic Workers Better
Here’s a New Year’s resolution to improve human rights in the United States.
Bethlehem
It’s going to be a little harder this time around.
Stephen King Meets the Estate Tax
What horrors will befall our nation’s wealthy when one of the most bizarre twists in tax legislation in history comes to pass?
The Struggle of Electrical Workers in Mexico Goes On
Dismantling the nation’s energy industry in the name of “structural reform” does little to help growing poverty and joblessness.