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Billionaires
Our Taxes Subsidize as Much as 74 Cents of Every Dollar Donated by a Billionaire
Our system subsidizes the “generous” donations of billionaires in the form of lost tax revenue.
Bernie Sanders Is on a Mission to Tax Billionaire CEOs
Sanders and Warren proposed a bill to raise taxes on corporations that pay CEOs 50 times what they pay average workers.
Mercers, Thiel Drop Millions Into “Hillbilly Elegy” Author’s Possible Senate Run
Billionaires who bankrolled Trump donated more than $10 million to a super PAC supporting J.D. Vance's Ohio campaign.
Wealth Gained by Billionaires Amid COVID Could Pay for Two-Thirds of Relief Bill
The wealthiest 657 billionaires in the U.S. are $1.3 trillion richer than they were last March.
To Renew Our Democracy, We Need to Tax the Ultrarich
After the tech sector, Wall Street is the second highest source of wealth for American billionaires.
As US Mourns 500,000 Lives, Billionaires Gained $1.3 Trillion During Pandemic
The U.S.'s 664 billionaires now have a combined net worth of $4.2 trillion.
Billionaires Win and We Lose at Pandemic Super Bowl 2021
Even in a pandemic, 64 billionaires have seen incredible gains from the major league sports teams they own.
GameStop Saga Reveals How Wall Street Offers Little to Our Collective Well-Being
What sort of social order lets people get rich betting on whether companies will fail while workers lose their jobs?
Sanders on Billionaire Investor’s Tax Fears Amid GameStop Saga: “Cry Me a River”
The ongoing GameStop saga has sparked renewed calls for a financial transactions tax and other redistributive measures.
COVID Windfall for Billionaires Could Fully Fund Relief for the Working Class
The wealth of billionaires in the U.S. has soared during a crisis that has taken more than 420,000 lives.