Randy Wray: The Value of Redemption (Debt Free Money, Part 3)
Repeat after me: creation comes before redemption. Always!
Read more...Category Archives: Taxes
Tax Breaks for Big Pharma on Top of Unreasonable Price Hikes
Big Pharma’s claim that it is hard pressed to find cash for R&D spending needs to be taken with a fistful of salt.
Read more...Low-Income Housing Shows How Tax Credits Funnel Dollars to the Wealthy Under the Guise of Benefits to the Poor
How tax credits to subsidize social programs like low income housing are really welfare for the rich.
Read more...Are Economists in Denial About What’s Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
Today’s richest Americans may soon blow past the tycoons of the Roaring Twenties.
Read more...Our Richard Smith Speaks on Taxcast
Our Richard Smith discusses his international fraud gumshoe work on Scottish limited partnerships on the Tax Justice Network’s Taxcast.
Read more...New Paper Makes Powerful Case Against Tax Treaties
Why tax treaties are a gimmie to multinationals and a poisoned chalice for developing countries.
Read more...Why Lowering the Marginal Corporate Tax Rate Does Not Increase Growth
A new paper puts another nail in the coffin to the idea that lowering corporate tax rates will boost growth.
Read more...Clinton, Sanders, and the “Progressive Give-Up” Formula (with Clinton’s Warning of a “Grand Bargain” to Come)
Clinton, Sanders, and days of Mondale past.
Read more...Bill Moyers: The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!
How citizens must fight plutocrats if they are to have any hope of preserving rule by the people.
Read more...U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits
Why a proposal to lower the tax rate on corporate funds that are “offshore” only from a tax perspective is just another corporate gimmie.
Read more...Global Tax Dodging Just One Part of Pfizer’s Corrupt Business Model
Pfizer whines about needing higher drug prices, when rather than investing, it has spent over 100% of its profits on stock buybacks and dividends.
Read more...New Studies: Do ‘Competitive’ Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Growth?
A new study devastates the widely-touted claim that corporate tax cuts promote growth.
Read more...The Bigger Significance of CalPERS’ Private Equity Carry Fee Release: Another Nail in the Carried Interest Tax Loophole Coffin
Why the CalPERS carry fee disclosure could affect the debate over ending the carried interest loophole.
Read more...Cameron Murray: Unpopular Economic Opinions
1. School is mostly about indoctrination into the national identity. It is also about child care, and for older children, about keeping them out of the labour force. If we were honest we could talk about education policy with this in mind, though no one does (okay, there are some exceptions).
Read more...10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
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