#CorkerKickback Trends After Last-Minute Tax Giveaway Benefiting GOP...
“He promised he wouldn’t vote for a deficit increase… Then traded his leverage for cold hard cash.” By Jon Queally, staff writer for CommonDreams. Published 12-17-2017 Though many initially shrugged it...
View ArticleUS Surpasses Cayman Islands to Become Second Largest Tax Haven on Earth
“This is not a ranking in which the U.S. wants to be number one or even number two. We have one of the strongest economies and one of the most secret. It’s a perfect recipe for attracting the proceeds...
View ArticleAnalysis: Major Corporations Have Spent Just 6% of Tax Cut Windfall on...
“You mean corporations aren’t using the bulk of their tax cuts to create jobs and boost workers’ wages like Trump promised? Weird…” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for CommonDreams. Published 2-28-2018...
View ArticleTrump’s Company Is Suing Towns Across the Country to Get Breaks on Taxes —...
Why is Trump’s business arguing its properties are worth just a fraction of what Trump has claimed they are on his own financial disclosures? To save on taxes. By Katherine Sullivan. Published...
View ArticleMore Than a Thousand Arrested as Yellow Vests Protests Over Economic...
“The Gilets Jaunes that you see in the streets,” said one organizer, “they’re being bled dry financially. The wealth gap is getting wider, and we’ve reached a point where there are the very rich and...
View ArticleStates are on the front lines of fighting inequality
Christopher Witko, Pennsylvania State University When Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., almost immediately took aim at America’s...
View ArticleA Year After ‘One of the Greatest Heists in US History,’ Survey Confirms...
“The GOP Tax Scam was always about making the wealthy and big corporations richer while leaving millions of working families behind.” By Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published...
View Article‘Like Nominating Dr. Phil to Run CDC’: Alarm Bells as Trump Nominates...
Concerned economic and political commentators decried Moore as “a famous idiot” who “has proved deeply impervious to facts.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 3-22-2019...
View ArticleIRS: Sorry, But It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor
Congress asked the IRS to report on why it audits the poor more than the affluent. Its response is that it doesn’t have enough money and people to audit the wealthy properly. So it’s not going to. By...
View ArticleWashington’s recession-fighting toolbox is nearly empty as US economy braces...
Bill Ferguson, Grinnell College Investors, policymakers, businesses and the general public are increasingly concerned the coronavirus’ rapid spread will lead to a recession. While this outcome is hard...
View ArticleTrump Call for Permanent Payroll Tax Cut Is “Code for Gutting Social...
“Nothing to do with helping workers and everything to do with undermining Social Security.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 4-8-2020 President Donald Trump on Tuesday once...
View ArticleMillions of People Face Stimulus Check Delays for a Strange Reason: They Are...
The IRS has had trouble getting money to people quickly because millions of Americans pay for their tax preparation through a baroque system of middlemen. By Paul Kiel, Justin Elliott and Will Young....
View ArticleWarnings of ‘Unconstitutional’ Assault on Social Security as Trump Threatens...
“Donald Trump is so desperate to defund Social Security, he may rip the Constitution to shreds to make it happen.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 8-5-2020 President Donald...
View ArticleFacebook: Genocide is Cool but Don’t Threaten our Profits
“Facebook’s willingness to block credible news sources also stands in sharp distinction to the company’s poor track record in addressing the spread of hateful content and disinformation on the...
View ArticleTax on Global Mega-Rich Could Help Lift 2.3 Billion Out of Poverty
“The insane reality is that whilst billions face a daily struggle to survive during this pandemic, billionaire wealth is spiraling out of control. This cannot be right.” By Jake Johnson. Pubished...
View ArticleSupreme Court Ruling Turns Separation of Church and State Into...
“We are witnessing one of the most extreme Supreme Courts in modern history rewrite the most basic social commitments of our society,” said the head of one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. By...
View ArticleJust 27 Billionaires Have Spent $90 Million to Buy GOP Congress: Report
“They’re counting on that ‘small’ investment in anti-tax Republicans to save them billions in taxes,” said Americans for Tax Fairness, which conducted the analysis. By Kenny Stancil Published...
View ArticleIntense heat and flooding are wreaking havoc on power and water systems as...
Volunteers distributed bottled water after Jackson, Mississippi’s water treatment plant failed during flooding in August 2022. Brad Vest/Getty Images Paul Chinowsky, University of Colorado Boulder...
View ArticleRepublican Policies Are Killing Americans: Study
“Changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019,” researchers estimate, “while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might...
View ArticleThe IRS already has all your income tax data – so why do Americans still have...
The government could toss the 1040 in the trash. Kameleon007iStock via Getty Images Beverly Moran, Vanderbilt University Doing taxes in the U.S. is notoriously complicated and costly. And it gets...
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