The Very Rich and the Rest of Us: Setting the Stage for Class War

If the 1% had taken the same percentage of U.S. income in 2006 as they did in 1980, they'd have sucked $1 trillion less out of the economy. Instead they tripled their share of post-tax income and captured ALL income gains in 2 years of recovery.

// Read More



8 Ways Privatization has Failed America

The myth that privatization of public services benefits most Americans is an outright lie.

// Read More



Illinois Bill Seeks Financial Transaction Tax on $800 Trillion Derivatives Market

A Financial Transaction Tax would be easy to administer and difficult to evade. Why should the rest of us pay up to 10% on the necessities of life while risky derivative purchases aren't taxed at all?

// Read More



Half of America in Poverty — and It's Creeping Upward

The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure, but it's actually much, much worse.

// Read More



Corporate Tax Betrayal: Ripping off the Public and Running with the Profits

Multinational corporations built their businesses on the backs of American taxpayers by depending on government research, national defense, the legal and educational systems and our infrastructure.

// Read More



16 Giant Corporations That Have Basically Stopped Paying Taxes — While Also Cutting Jobs

It's a golden age for corporate profits. So why don't our biggest corporations pay more taxes?

// Read More



Memo to Wealthy America: Some Facts About the Victims of Greed

The 1% has taken from the poor and the middle class for thirty years using a variety of strategies to redistribute wealth to the top. Here is the effect of this funds transfer.

// Read More



Corpocrisy: The Systemic Betrayal of American Workers

Government has contributed significantly to developing today's most modern technologies, and corporations have taken full advantage—meanwhile making never-before-seen profits, evading taxes, cutting jobs and hoarding excess money.

// Read More



The Extremist Cult of Capitalism

Capitalism is a cult devoted to the ideals of privatization over the common good, profit over social needs, and control by a small group of people who defy the public's will.

// Read More



U.S. Tax Avoidance is Astronomical — $3 Trillion a Year and Rising

If tax avoidance is legal it’s because the people with money have redefined "legal." Through subsidies, schemes and sweet deals, the wealthiest Americans are only soaring higher as middle-class workers are deprived of their earned benefits.

// Read More

Pages