Biden Is Right: You Shouldn’t Pay a Higher Tax Rate Than Billionaires
The president has renewed his call for a “billionaire minimum tax.” If Congress won’t listen, states should.
Elon Musk May Not Be So Brilliant After All
As Twitter implodes under Musk’s rule, a lawsuit argues Tesla is vastly overpaying the world’s richest man.
The Climate Case for Taxing Wealth
Vast fortunes rely on destroying our planet. Taxing those fortunes to fund climate action could give us a shot at survival.
Whither the Wealth Squad?
Funding the IRS’ wealth squad can help ensure the nation’s richest pay their fair share of taxes.
The Gilded Glamour Met Gala Was a Fantasia of Inequality
Our second Gilded Age isn’t as enchanting as Condé Nast and celebrity spectacle make it seem – but a red carpet parade while event workers struggle for dignified treatment epitomizes the era.
Bulldozing Away the Right to Tax the Rich
The rich all over, not just Elon Musk, are flexing their muscle.
Elon Musk Is Hiding the Ball Again on Taxes
Fanboys of the richest person on Earth are spinning bogus tales that swell the Musk fortune and embellish his ‘genius.’
America’s Inherited Wealth Dynasties Park Trillions Out of Reach of Taxation
A new report estimates that $21 trillion of that wealth will pass internally within America’s already dynastically wealthy families between now and 2045.
A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax
But our only quarter-trillionaire is still not paying anything close to his fair tax share.
What’s That ‘Surtax’ Doing in Build Back Better?
Congress may soon be delivering America’s awesomely affluent an unpleasant tax-time surprise.
American Tax Policy in the Age of Trillionaires
Have we just about decided that the further accumulation of billionaire fortunes makes for good public policy?
Let’s Make the Most of This ‘Tax Billionaires’ Moment
The movement to tax extreme wealth to pay for human needs suddenly has a rare political opening.
U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They’re Now Up $1.8 Trillion.
Billionaire wealth gains made during the COVID-19 pandemic could pay for half of Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget package
America’s Billionaires: Borrowing Their Way to Ever More Fabulous Fortunes
The great painter Diego Rivera would not appreciate what our richest are using for collateral.
Our Billionaires Are Blasting Off. Good Riddance!
Could space become the ‘final frontier’ in the struggle for a more equal world?