With Shutdown Averted, Is Social Security Safe? Nope!
Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...Tax breaks to the rich mean less revenue, higher deficits, and more calls to gut programs like Social Security that protect ordinary citizens
Read more...After long resistance by rich nations, African governments successfully pushed for the UN to lead on international tax cooperation.
Read more...Why a wealth tax is not only no magic bullet, but also not likely to work very well.
Read more...Hunter Biden seems to have quite the affinity for hot water. Judge Noreika has sent his irregular plea deal back to the drawing board.
Read more...Shed a crocodile tear. Former private equity kingpin Leon Black is back in hot water thanks to his dealings with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein
Read more...And why finding reforms to our current economic system is a Sisyphean task.
Read more...A state court, citing “eye-popping” executive compensation, strikes down a hospital’s property tax break and strikes fear into the nonprofit hospital industry across the US.
Read more...A shaggy dog story on trying to get the IRS to accept cash….
Read more...The Biden Administration has yet to take comparatively easy steps to reduce medical debt abuses.
Read more...The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Read more...Russia had a budget shortfall due to a fall in energy-related tax receipts. How serious a problem is this development?
Read more...A short MMT refresher course in the form of a Q&A.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Despite EU and US initiatives to curb corporate use of tax havens, big companies continue to fatten their wallets.
Read more...Rishi Sunak has a Mission Impossible even before getting to his bad impulses. Most countries in the West face the same long list of problems
Read more...“Price gouging from Big Oil is unacceptable and that’s exactly why we need a Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax.”
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