Oregon is a blue state, but like a lot of blue states, it has a lot of voters, especially in its wealthier classes, who believe Republicans have a lot of good points on the economy. Meanwhile, because Oregon is just purple enough that if you...
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Massachusetts has done some amazing things of late, with its recent vote to tax the hell out of the rich being a real progressive point. Meanwhile, voters there also elected.
This is an interesting discussion of why we should tax prison labor. It seems a bit off to me--for me, the point of taxing prison labor would be to disincentivize.
Mount Hope, West Virginia. Photo by Tim Kiser CC BY-SA 3.0 US https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons One of the most important anti-poverty initiatives in decades has expired. Although the boosted Child Tax Credit could still get a revival for 2022, as of now, those monthly...
One of the single biggest problems in global governance is the mania to move money across the globe to tax havens. We are finally seeing some movement in coordinating internationally.
I've written at length about how corporations have unmoored themselves from national law in the world of labor relations and environmental degradation, while those of us fighting this are left.
Granted, I'd prefer far higher tax increases on the rich than Biden is proposing. But this is a solid start to reverse a half-century of giving tax breaks to the people who can most afford to pay up: The centerpiece of the tax increases would...
For two decades or more, those who follow issues of climate change have known that the Outer Banks are probably doomed. And yet, as one of the nation's most popular.
Glad to hear this: President Joe Biden is planning the first major federal tax hike since 1993 to help pay for the long-term economic program designed as a follow-up to his.
New York could raise money for its financially desperate public transportation by creating a wealth tax on the richest people in the world who live there (or "live there" given the amount of foreign cash stashed in high-end real estate near Central Park where the...
Until this nation gets over its belief that corporations are fundamentally good, we will never solve our national problems. At this point, the corporations aren't even trying to hide their.
I really struggle to see the validity of arguments for Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren. She simply provides the real policy arguments that he often handwaves away, making her a.