Tax Time: How Corporations Are Cheating Schoolchildren

It’s a devious double whammy: taxpayers are giving money to multinational corporations and then paying a second time to meet the needs of underfunded U.S. public schools.

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5 Reasons the Top Tax Rate Should Be 80%

Informed Americans understand that an economic war has been waged against the middle and lower classes – and as history shows, progressive taxes actually work.

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Our Jobs Are Disappearing

We need a guaranteed income to ensure that the benefits of 60 years of U.S. prosperity go to all Americans – not just to the few who know how to redistribute the nation’s wealth.

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All Or Nothing: Why the 0.1% Are The Real Terrorists

These 16,000 individuals have as much wealth as 80% of America – and have mastered the art of tax avoidance while 2.5 million children experience homelessness every year, and two-thirds of U.S. families don't have enough money for basic repairs.

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A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty

Congress should be filled with guilt — and shame — for failing to deal with the enormous wealth disparities that are turning our country into the equivalent of a 3rd-world nation.

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Five Hypocrisies Shine A Light On American "Exceptionalism"

Super-patriots are more than willing to overlook their own faults as they place themselves above other people – the only question may be which of their self-serving hypocrisies is most outrageous and destructive.

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How U.S. Corporations Avoided Paying 2014 Taxes, State By State, To a Tune of $50 Billion

The corporate world paid about half their required taxes, revealing the extent to which Americans are being deprived of revenue that should be going to education and infrastructure.

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Disposable Americans: Evidence Keeps Pouring In That Capitalism Just Isn’t Working

From the failure to create jobs to the inability to rescue the environment or provide adequate housing and education, the catastrophe of modern day capitalism is more and more evident by the day – and something's got to give.

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Great Embarrassments of an Unequal Society

America has experienced "gush-up" rather than "trickle-down" – now the shame is on the adherents of unregulated free-market capitalism who have assaulted us with winner-take-all wealth over the common good.

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Isn't It Time We Called Private Health Care An Act of Terrorism?

Being sick and having nowhere to turn is terrorizing far too many Americans – as medical fraud, huge price markups and pharmaceutical copyright laws are contributing to growing illnesses and early death.

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