Taxes

Democrats and Republicans alike insist that the U.S. is broke, all the while conveniently ignoring the mountains of tax-free wealth piling up in the pockets of the super rich.

Robin Hood tax supporters National Nurses United, economist Jeffrey Sachs, and European Parliament VP tell Congress to support “no brainer” tax on Wall Street.

ALEC describes itself as the largest voluntary group of state legislators in the country, but it is really a corporate-financed lobby that facilitates getting special interest legislation into the …

The American people pay a similar amount for social services as citizens of European countries with supposedly lavish social safety nets.

Now that our government is up and running again, the nation's first priority should be economic growth.

That is, U.S. taxpayers, whether they eat at McDonaldu2019s, Subway, etc. or not, are subsidizing the very fast food restaurants that offer criminally underpaid jobs.

In reality, this is a story about how bureaucratic bungling was turned into scandal by right wing politicians desperate to spin gold from straw.

ALEC's model bills for scholarship tax credits for private school tuition harm the people they are purported to help.

One way the top 1 percent is trying to ease concerns about inequality is pretending that our safety net is too generous to the bottom 1 percent.

US policy towards tax havens is highly hypocritical. Washington is pursuing two opposing policies: increasing the repatriation of assets, and tacitly allowing US territories to continue their offshore financial …