David Cay Johnston: Here’s how the super rich avoid paying taxes — and what we can do about it
Our investigative series The Koch Papers illustrates many deep problems in America’s creaky, century-old income tax system, especially how our...
Category: Richest One Percent
‘Eye-popping’ analysis shows top 1% gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
Stopping The Koch Brothers’ Agenda In Arizona
You may recall that a few weeks ago, a Koch brothers’ spokeswoman announced that their network is now willing to...
Uber founder buys $72.5 million mansion as Uber drivers live in their cars
As rideshare drivers across the U.S. and around the world continue to struggle for decent wages, benefits, and the basic right to...
Top one percent gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while bottom half lost $900 billion
Adding to the mountain of statistical evidence showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an analysis published Friday found that the top one percent of...
Bosses pocket Trump tax windfall as workers see job promises vanish
Stephen Smith worked at an AT&T call center in Meriden, Connecticut, for over 20 years before the giant telecoms company...
Rigged: How US tax law props up people like Donald Trump
The New York Times disclosure that Donald Trump was able “to avoid paying income taxes” for years, while he racked up $1.17 billion...
Robert Reich: The 12 biggest myths about raising taxes on the rich
Some politicians are calling for higher taxes on the rich. Naturally, these proposals have unleashed a torrent of opposition –...
Robert Reich: JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism, unless of it’s the banks that need a government bailout
In his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism, warning it...
$28 Billion in Tax Cuts Last Year Went to Banks
As reports continue to come out from angry American voters saying that their tax refunds are shriveling or that they...
The Trump-GOP Tax Law Continues To Crater As Refunds Plummet By 17 Percent
The Trump-Republican tax scam continued to rear its ugly head for the third straight week as figures released late Friday...
Billionaire Howard Schultz is no patriot: Robert Reich
America is the only place in the world where any citizen over the age of 35 can run for president....
Average Tax Refund Down 8.4 Percent As Money Under Republican Tax Plan Goes Into Accounts of Billionaires
Average tax refunds were down last week 8.4 percent for the first week of the tax season over the same...
Billionaires Whine About Elizabeth Warren’s Proposed Billionaire Tax
I suppose this Morning Joe mini-discussion is the closest thing we’re going to get in terms of a discussion of...
World’s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own...
Trump’s economy is great for billionaires, not for working people: Bernie Sanders
Donald Trump tells us the US economy is “absolutely booming”, the “strongest we’ve ever had” and “the greatest in the...
Most Americans Support Ocasio-Cortez’ 70% Marginal Tax Rate Idea
In a blow to conservatives everywhere a new Hill-HarrisX survey supported Ocasio-Cortez’ beliefs and found that most Americans by a...
American democracy seems rigged because it is: Robert Reich
The most important thing we must do to save our democracy is get big money out of politics. It’s a...
What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? A lot. — Paul Krugman
I have no idea how well Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will perform as a member of Congress. But her election is already...
The GOP Reboots Its Old Tax and Budget Scam
Get ready to see it on your TV. The GOP is about to kick back into Two Santa Clauses mode...
“Speaker Ryan will always be remembered for rigging the system to prioritize the wealthy”
As House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) delivered his farewell address on Wednesday after 20 years of relentlessly working to gut social programs for the...
Trump Golf Count: $84,000,000 Billed to Taxpayers, So Far
Daytime visits to golf clubs since inauguration, with evidence of playing golf on at least 70 visits. The last recorded...
Koch Brother’s Attempt to Upend Democracy & Make Americans Pay for the Damage
This is a story of how a small group of wealthy white men can hijack an entire nation, destroy its...
U.S. Charges Four in ‘Panama Papers’ Tax Evasion Scheme
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S....
Top Priority of Republican Congress: Give More Money To Billionaires
An interesting thing about politics is how you can distill so many nuanced policies down to a few core ideological...
Trump’s Panama tower used for money laundering, reports say
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
Boycott Urged After San Francisco Giants Owner Donates to Neo-Confederate Candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith
SAN FRANCISCO — A civil rights attorney is calling for a boycott of the San Francisco Giants after the baseball team’s...
David Cay Johnston on Tax Cheating: It’s Not Just The Trumps
In radio shows and talks from London to Boston to Richmond, Ind., people keep asking me how the Trump family got...
Human Rights Group Calls For Investigation Of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
Trump Sued for Scamming Struggling Investors Through Endorsement Deals
In 2014, a financially struggling hospice caregiver in California decided to invest in a video phone marketing company by the...
CEO Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Dispensing Millions of Opioid Painkillers
A wealthy CEO might actually be heading to prison – a rare occurrence in America today. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of...
Salesforce CEO: Tech Billionaires ‘Hoard Their Money’ And Won’t Help Homeless
Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, has escalated his attacks on fellow San Francisco billionaires, saying they are “hoarding” money and don’t want...
The Trump Family’s Pump and Dump Scam
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...
NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Why We Need to See Trump’s Tax Returns
Once upon a time, there was a little-known energy company called Enron. In its 16-year life, it went frombeing dubbed...
Billionaires vs. Teachers: The Koch Brothers’ Plan to Starve Public Education
Arizona has become the hotbed for an experiment rightwing activists hope will redefine America’s schools – an experiment that has...
Trump Sacrifices Government Employees’ Raises To Billionaires’ Tax Cut
The White House announced Thursday that they would be canceling scheduled pay increases for government employees, citing budget concerns. In a...
The Tax-Cut Con Goes On: Paul Krugman
What will happen if the blue wave in the midterm elections falls short? Clearly, at this point it still might: Democrats...
Trump’s History of Laundering Russian Mafia Money Through His Properties
Author Craig Unger has been following Donald Trump’s dealings in Russia since his 1987 visit–at the behest of the Russian...
Billionaire Koch Brothers Give Tucker Carlson’s ‘Daily Caller’ Cash to Spew Right Wing Propaganda
Tucker Carlson, FOX News’ new prime-time anchor, received a six-figure sum from the Donald Trump campaign for president through his...
Russian Mob ‘Made its Move’ on Trump After a String of Trump Bankruptcies: Documentary Filmmaker
A documentary filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to talk about what he’s found while researching “Active Measures,”...
For the conniving Donald Trump, ‘Made in America’ is not important with Trump-branded products
Donald Trump hosted an event at the White House yesterday in celebration of American-made products, and as is too often...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Study Finds That Average CEO-To-Worker Pay Gap Has Now Reached 339 to 1
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
Slumlord Sean Hannity Makes Money By Threatening To Evict Poor People
An analysis of Sean Hannity’s real estate holdings found that he used evictions and eviction threats against poor to generate...
Trump’s Billionaire Friend Carl Icahn Receives EPA Waiver Worth Tens of Millions
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
