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How to Steal from Taxpayers While Blaming the Poor
It’s a vicious circle of hypocrisy: Americans dependent on the safety net are urged to “get a job” by the same free-market system that pays them too little to avoid being dependent on the safety net.
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These Seven Giant U.S. Corporations Pay Their CEOs More Than They Pay In Taxes
Boeing, Chevron, Citigroup, Ford, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase and General Motors declared more than $74 billion in combined U.S. pre-tax profits in 2013 – and paid their CEOs on average $17.3 million each.
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Shady Profits: How the World’s Top Corporations Are Failing At Transparency
A new report reveals that three-quarters of the world's 124 biggest publicly traded companies don't disclose the taxes they pay in foreign countries, and dozens hide their foreign revenues altogether.
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Missouri's Solidarity Economy Is Organizing In the Wake of Mike Brown
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots group taking the lead to combat systemic racism and build a people's economy in St. Louis.
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14 Americans Made More Money than the Food Stamp Budget for 50 Million
So little of our national wealth is going to feed people or provide jobs and instead, the richest Americans vastly increased their wealth this past year. But what vaulted these individuals to the top?
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Obama Issues Rules to Crack Down on Overseas Corporate Tax Evasion
The executive action on Monday hits back at inversion schemes employed by U.S. corporations that stash taxable cash in their subsidiaries overseas.
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Straight Numbers On the Rich, the Un-Rich And Who's Really Taking Entitlements
The super-rich feel they deserve all the tax breaks and the accumulation of wealth from the productivity of others – this is the true threat of entitlement.
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How Crony Capitalism and Deregulation Poisoned Toledo's Water
Like other water-related crises this year in West Virginia and Detroit, the poisoning of Toledo's water is tied to corruption at the highest levels of state government by corporate special interests.
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Tax Them, Tax Them, Tax Them: 5 Extreme Acts of Greed Harming America
If a revolution is to take place, Americans – especially young Americans – need to know the facts, and they need to know how they're getting cheated, and they need to get angry.
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Another French Economist Cracks the Nut – Revealing True Costs of Tax Evasion
By analyzing data from central banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg, Gabriel Zucman has put creditable numbers on tax evasion, showing that it’s rampant – and a major driver of wealth inequality.