Under-Taxing the Rich Is Uncivilized
We all pay for those cuts down the road.
We all pay for those cuts down the road.
When assessing policies affecting our state and the well-being of all our citizens, we should be using a lens such as the Genuine Progress Indicator.
Report uses Genuine Progress Indicator, finds that a more equitable level of income could generate $65 billion in benefits for Maryland
A new IPS report lays out a strategy for fostering Genuine Progress in Maryland.
If the levels of greater income equality of 1968 still prevailed today, the poorest fifth of Marylanders would be earning twice what they take home now.
Compared with ordinary Americans, CEOs pushing cuts have little to lose. CEO-backed cuts would reduce retirement benefits for a typical home care worker by almost 16 percent.
It will take more than President Barack Obama’s tenure to vanquish American prejudice and racial injustice.
Americans were once able to wrestle, bit by bit, power and influence from the wealthy elite–and if they did it once, they can certainly do so again.
These four progressive proposals have bipartisan potential.
While the White House and much of the media spun the hurried late-night move as a victory for the middle class, it was a win paid for with new tax cuts worth hundreds of billions of dollars for America’s wealthiest families.
Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation’s capital.
The early reaction by many progressive organizations is that it would be better to go over the cliff than accept the emerging bargain the President has offered.
If the top two percent is up in arms about losing their Bush tax cuts, why aren’t they generating any street heat?
Recent research debunks some of the most common arguments against raising taxes on the richest Americans.
The health industry is about making money, not healing.