Tag: taxes

A tale of disappearing money and opportunistic candidates.

“ We live in a country that has been hijacked by super rich greedy fiends that have profited from what can be called the Big Con.”

When a high-rolling trader buys millions of dollars’ worth of stocks or derivatives, there’s no levy at all.

It's a devious double whammy: Taxpayers are giving money to the corporations and then paying a second time to meet the needs of the underfunded public schools.

“The overall composition of Congress is not going to change much at all after the election. So, really, the only way to reboot America is to have a smart, benevolent dictator.”

Republican presidential candidates all claimed they would not raise taxes on millionaires if elected.

Corporate honchos say taxes are “forcing” them to relocate their businesses to offshore tax havens.

I would trust a pack of coyotes to guard my little herd of lambs before I'd trust a pack of corporate hucksters to "reform" America's tax code.

The national debate about widening inequality only focuses on taxing the rich to redistribute their income downward. But what about the upward redistributions hidden inside the market from the rest of the rich?

As poor Americans continue to get blamed for being poor, it's the free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net—the vicious circle of hypocrisy.