The First Trillionaire: No Cause for Celebration
We’ll never, as a nation, take on the ultra-rich if millions of Americans identify with them.
There’s No Debate Over Debt—Only About Priorities
If the GOP cared about debt, they’d stop cutting rich people’s taxes and give the Pentagon a haircut. So what’s this really about?
The Two Decades That Created Our World’s First Mass Middle Class
If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.
The Ultra-Wealthy Have a Private Jet Problem
This expensive, carbon-intensive form of travel is bad for both the earth and the taxpayers who subsidize it for the ultra-rich.
We Must Not Dance, Harry Belafonte Understood, to a Billionaire Beat
This epochal artist helped us see that justice for all requires a just distribution of wealth.
Seriously Auditing the Rich Makes Sense. Seriously Taxing the Rich Can Save Us.
Our tax code ought to give every American a full “cost of living” exemption from high tax and impose higher marginal tax rates on income above that cost-of-living benchmark.
Reparations Are Expensive — but Not Repairing the Harm Costs More
The racial wealth divide between Black and White Americans is much bigger — and more stubborn — than many of us realize. The median African-American household has just 6 percent of the wealth of the median White American household, the Institute for Policy Studies...
It’s Time We Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share
Dismantling the IRS, whether by cutting its funding or abolishing it outright, is a gift to the ultra-wealthy for whom U.S. taxes are already becoming voluntary.
Can Our ‘Labs of Democracy’ Once Again Deliver?
In the near future, our states will have to determine whether we truly tax the rich.
A ‘Down’ Year for Our Deepest Pockets?
Billionaire fortunes have shriveled a bit over the past year. Billionaire power hasn’t.
Oxfam Wants To More than Double the Tax Rate on Our Richest
That bold a hike, our U.S. history suggests, can actually happen.
Lawmakers, Fix Trust Law and Close Down the Billionaire Enabler States.
The world’s wealthy already operate by a different set of rules and laws. But allowing the full scale carveout and manipulation of U.S. state trust law to serve their interests should not be one of them.
How Colombia Will Tax the Wealthy
President Gustavo Petro’s government plans to raise $20 trillion Colombian pesos through a hyper-targeted tax on less than one percent of the country’s top earners. Other nations should take notice.
Tax the Rich? We Did That Once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
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.