Sanders blasts Senate’s ‘strange priorities’ as it advances corporate welfare
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Democratic-controlled chamber moved to...
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont blasted the warped priorities of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as the Democratic-controlled chamber moved to...
Elon Musk has now put together a $46.5bn financing package to buy Twitter – two thirds of it from his...
Wall Street veteran Nelson Peltz hosted a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Sen. Joe Manchin at the billionaire’s sprawling Florida estate last...
Nikki Spretnak loved being an IRS agent. Being able to examine the books of different businesses gave her an intimate...
On Monday, the White House unveiled President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget proposal, which includes a minimum tax on the nation’s...
Capitalism and democracy are compatible only if democracy is in the driver’s seat. That’s why I took some comfort just...
The United States was founded on the idea of freedom by right, not freedom by bloodline. But that has not...
Senator Elizabeth Warren responds to Elon Musk calling her ‘Senator Karen’ on Twitter in response to her call for him...
A group of wealthy investors and business leaders who support progressive taxation launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at pushing Sen....
In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with...
As the bombshell Pandora Papers continue to expose dubious details about how the world’s superrich hide their fortunes and avoid...
Corporations threatened by the prospect of paying a slightly higher tax rate and exercising a little less power over working people...
A Treasury Department report released Wednesday estimates that the richest 1% of Americans are responsible for more than $160 billion...
Right now, Democrats are working to pass a $3.5 trillion package that will provide long overdue help for working Americans....
While the United States’ west coast was battling wildfires on September 1, the Northeastern Corridor suffered tornadoes, torrential rainfall and...
Today a federal judge is expected to certify Purdue Pharmaceutical’s bankruptcy plan – a $4.5 billion settlement between the company...
The collective wealth of the top billionaires in the U.S. has increased by nearly two-thirds during the pandemic, not only...
In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen....
A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House...
After many months of anticipation and nearly three years of investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office has charged the Trump...
Abigail Disney has a lot to criticize about American billionaires — especially when they inherit a pile of cash and...
ProPublica scored a fantastic scoop when it obtained and meticulously analyzed 15 years of raw income tax data on the...
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal...
In what is a ridiculously long overdue proposal, President Joe Biden is advocating doubling the size of the IRS, adding tens...
“Things are still really bad for a lot of people in this country, which makes it especially jarring when you...
President Joe Biden has been highly critical of the corporate tax cuts of the Trump era, complaining that the Tax...
Just 12 megadonors contributed roughly $1 in every 13 dollars spent on recent campaigns for federal office, as well as the...
Following IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s admission Tuesday that tax dodgers are depriving the federal government of as much as $1...
Chuck Collins knows how rich people hide their money. Collins was an heir to the Oscar Mayer wiener fortune, an inheritance...
Income and wealth are now more concentrated at the top than at any time over the last 80 years, and...
In public, Republicans have denounced Democrats’ ambitious electoral-reform bill, the For the People Act, as an unpopular partisan ploy. In...
The top 1% of the highest-earning American households are hiding 21% of their income from the Internal Revenue Service, costing...
Bernie Sanders: I say to the Walton family of Walmart: the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing your...
President Biden cut child poverty in half with the American Rescue Plan, and he is following it up by making...
America’s billionaires have made so much money they could fund two-thirds of President Biden’s American Rescue Plan (ARP) with just...
With the possibility of getting a more straightforward $15 federal minimum wage increase passed under the reconciliation process as part...
Donald Trump’s taxes were officially handed over to the Manhattan D.A.’s office on Monday, just hours after the Supreme Court...
Congressman Ro Khanna on Thursday unveiled legislation to help the Internal Revenue Service “put an end to runaway tax evasion...
Record cold temperatures combined with widespread power outages have brought considerable misery to millions of Texas residents. But one person...
Nearly one year after suspending a presidential campaign that she built on the idea of a national wealth tax, Sen....
The comparisons between Charles Dickens’ miserly, Christmas-hating curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, and members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet flow fast and...
Donald Trump has arrived at his Palm Beach, Florida, resort for the 31st golf vacation there of his presidency, raising...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday took to the Senate floor to once again make the case for sending another round...
Lawmakers in Argentina on Friday approved a new one-time levy on the country’s richest citizens to raise money to address...
A compelling majority of Americans favor raising taxes on people who make more than $400,000 per year, according to a...