Cut Corporate Taxes? This is How the Biggest Companies Cheated on Taxes in 2016

Corporations make billions from U.S. research and education, but then they turn around and cheat us on taxes. And Republicans think corporations should get a tax break.

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New Evidence that Poor Americans Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Little of the Safety Net

Poor Americans pay about 25 percent in total taxes, while the 1% pays anywhere from 18 to 23 percent. Meanwhile, the richest 10% as a group receives almost as much government assistance as the poorest 50%.

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90% of American Households Lost $17,000 In Wealth to the 1% in 2016

America has always been great for the richest 1% and it’s rapidly becoming greater, as multi-millionaires shifted nearly $4 trillion in wealth away from the rest of the nation to themselves last year.

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Killing Us Softly: Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma

“Somewhere, right now, a cash-strapped parent or budget-limited patient will skip acquiring an EpiPen. And someday they will need it in a life-threatening situation, and they won’t have it, and they will die.”

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Overwhelming Evidence that a Guaranteed Income Will Work

We’re fooling ourselves by believing in a future with satisfying middle-class jobs for millions of Americans. It’s becoming clear that income should be guaranteed so that people can find productive ways to serve society.

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Escalating the War on Low-Income Families

It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.

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2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There

People with money and power are still appalled by the notion of a popular democracy. But something is different now, as the American majority are better able to communicate and unify in pursuit of a progressive nation.

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How the Super-Rich Will Destroy Themselves

Perhaps they feel immune from the killings in the streets, for they rarely venture into the streets anymore. They don’t care about the great masses of ordinary people, nor do they think they need us.

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The Growing Case for Massive Taxes on the Rich

While candidates bicker and Congress stagnates and the rest of us dwell on the latest shooting tragedy, the super-rich enjoy the absence of attention paid to one of our nation’s most destructive issues: tax avoidance.

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Disposable Americans: The Numbers are Growing

After 35 years of wealth distribution to the super-rich, inequality has forced much of the middle class towards the bottom, to near-poverty levels, and to a state of helplessness in which they find themselves being blamed for their own misfortunes.

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