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Joseph Stiglitz Calls Out Corporate Tax Dodgers – Here Are 10 of Them
In this recent report for the Roosevelt Institute, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz suggests that paying our fair share of taxes and cracking down on corporate tax dodgers could be a cure for inequality and a faltering economy.
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Apple and Starbucks Under In-Depth Investigation For Tax Dodging In Europe
Large multinationals need to pay their fair share of taxes.
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How Taxpayers Subsidize America’s Biggest Employer and Richest Family
Walmart and the Walton family receive tax breaks and taxpayer subsidies estimated at more than $7.8 billion a year – that is enough money to hire 105,000 new public school teachers.
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Corporate Profits and the Amazing Wealth Surge For The Top 0.1 Percent
New research finds that richest 0.1 percent of Americans have doubled their share of the pie, dramatically expanding their portion of the country's wealth in three decades.
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St. Louis Judge Cites Citizens United to Protect Tax Breaks for Peabody Energy
With the quick stroke of a pen, a circuit court judge has silenced more than 22,000 residents.
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After $93 Billion in Profits, Big Five Oil Corps Still Battling to Keep Tax Breaks
Despite their outsized earnings, the oil companies are not only fighting to keep their tax breaks but also lobbying to lift the crude oil export ban.
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Protests Over Twitter Tax Breaks As Angers Rise In Inequality Valley, California
Twitter, headquartered in downtown San Francisco, received $55 million in tax breaks last year – and residents, workers and activists now say the degree of inequality in the city is unbearable.
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How Long Can the Rich Keep Cheating the 99%?
America gained $16 trillion in financial wealth over the past 5 years, though most went to the very top economic rungs.
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Why Washington’s Polarization and Gridlock Work to Enrich the 1%
Washington gridlock helps the super-rich stay rich, and get richer. And the richer they get, the more the gridlock actually helps them.
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Making the Case for Doubling the Corporate Income Tax
U.S. corporations need to pay for the many years of employee productivity and public research that built their trillion-dollar industries.