Taxes

Rich politicians such as FDR who favored social welfare programs were called class traitors. Romney, however, is a sponsor of the wealthy class.

If Romney eliminated every single loophole and deduction for wealthy taxpayers, he still couldnu2019t offset the revenue loss without raising taxes on the middle class.

Clinton's political skills shouldn't prevent us from understanding the track record of his economic policies.

President Obama has promised to end the Bush tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 when they expire at the end of the year, with his aides saying …

Last week, Mitt Romney committed himself to picking a Federal Reserve Board chairman that will try to keep workers' wages down.

Updates on Europe's ongoing crisis, real US tax history, bank tycoon admits

Here's a new book based on an exclusive Truthout commentary that became a national media sensation.

America is divided about its future. Should it keep and expand the system that brought past opportunity, prosperity and freedom? Or should it dismantle that system?

Updates include Capital One Bank's misdeeds, French socialists' new policies, taxing churches in Spain, Walton family's immense wealth, strike at Caterpillar, and taxing private wealth.

All those official government stats on the maldistribution of wealth in the United States u2014 and the world u2014 vastly understate the actual extent of our contemporary inequality, says …