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FACT Urges Congress to End Offshore Corporate Tax Dodging Via Extenders and Inversions
The Treasury Department announced new rules designed to stem the tide of inversions, and have been somewhat successful.
US Treasury and Transportation Departments Hold a Privatization Party
Ignoring the benefits of taxes as a revenue source forces us into depending on the people who crashed the economy to fund our infrastructure.
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The Scourge of Siphon-Up Economics
Addressing inequality head-on will put our nation's wealth back where it belongs - with all of us.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.
OECD Takes Strong Stance on Corporate Tax Avoidance
The OECD recommends international cooperation to prevent large corporations from avoiding taxes in the countries where they do business.
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Should Taxpayers Subsidize the Pay of College Presidents?
If we can get qualified people to run the Defense Department and Department of Health and Human Services for half this amount, perhaps their school is not the sort …
Tax Dodger Running for Governor in Illinois
If elected governor of Illinois, tax-dodging one-percenter Bruce Rauner may well support legislation to loosen the rules and help other wealthy investors and corporations avoid taxes by parking their …
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Poor Polls and Obama’s Missed Opportunity
What if President Obama had rejected conventional political advice and pushed for a new New Deal? What if an effective nonaligned left had pushed for such a program, economist …
Where Does $2 Trillion in Subsidies for the Wealthiest Hide in Plain Sight?
Research shows that government subsidies for the 1 percent are creating greater inequality.
Bill Moyers | Joseph Stiglitz: How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class
Joseph E. Stiglitz says that such lucrative loopholes are contributing to America's inequality problem and persistent unemployment rate.