Wealth for the Common Good has had a campaign to put some brakes on high frequency trading for quite some time. Though it’s not gotten a lot of attention lately, it is certainly one of the high risk, “Wall Street [...]
In a response to the recent New York Times April 28, 2012 article about Apple’s ability to avoid national and state taxes, Citizens for Tax Justice noted they now have $74 Billion in untaxed earnings sitting offshore, of which nearly [...]
Originally published on NPR.org, April 25, 2012 By Scott Klinger and Sarah Anderson Many American families will have paid more in federal income taxes than some of America’s largest and most profitable corporations. AT&T, Boeing, Citigroup, Duke Energy and Ford collectively [...]
As we’ve noted in our Call to Action, progressive tax policy does not exist in a vacuum. We need to keep the big picture in mind and see the links between low tax rates on wealthy Americans and multinational corporations, [...]
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Warren Buffett has famously decried the unfairness of a tax system that lets him pay a lower rate than his secretary. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island crafted the Buffett Rule for tax fairness into proposed legislation called “The Paying [...]
Wealth for Common Good founder has a new book out, “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It.” The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works [...]
Tax policies are now on the front burner: The Buffett Rule will soon come up for a vote in Congress. Americans are learning the truth about unequal treatment of wealth and work in our tax code—how capital gains and investment [...]