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Billionaires
Even With a Wealth Tax, Economic Policy Ensures Billionaires Will Exist
Within our current system, we can't limit the voices of the super rich -- but we can amplify the voices of the non-rich.
Billionaires Are Panicking Over the Growing Popularity of a Wealth Tax
Billionaires are scaremongering about market crashes because they don’t like what they see in the presidential primary.
Bernie Sanders: Bloomberg’s 2020 Bid Shows “Billionaire Class Is Scared”
Rich Democrats are worried -- and rightly so, according to the Sanders campaign.
Taxing Financial Transactions Is More Strategic Than Taxing High Wealth
If we rely overwhelmingly on taxing a small group of super-rich people, they could simply renounce their citizenship.
Sanders Proposes Wealth Tax to Slash Fortunes of Ultra-Rich
“I don't think billionaires should exist,” Sanders says.
Tax the Rich Before the Rest
Candidates should pledge that the middle class won't any new taxes until billionaires put up at least $1 trillion.
GOP’s Response to Inequality Crisis? More Tax Cuts for the Rich, of Course.
I'm a wealthy investor. Trump's proposal would save me and other big investors billions. This is wrong.
Billionaire Tom Steyer Spends More Than $7 Million on Ads in First Month
The former hedge fund manager has made his name known across early primary states with millions in ad buys.
Wealthy Hampton Homeowners Are Trying to Suppress Tribal Sovereignty
The proposed billboards on Shinnecock land will bring much-needed economic relief to Long Island's Indigenous.
Want to Be a Principled Billionaire? Stop Being a Billionaire.
Billionaire philanthropy will never fix the problem when the problem is capitalism itself.