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Astoundingly Legal Corporate Tax Thievery
If you get a speeding ticket, do you get to deduct the fine from the income tax you owe? Then why should JPMorgan Chase be able to deduct from its taxes a $20 billion fine for wrongdoing as a cost of doing business?
'No Labels' Gets A Label – And It's Not Pretty
Ahhh, the ongoing dream of a "radical centrist" revolution. For some reason it always ends up doing absolutely nothing except make money for the people who sell it as a way to keep the rabble in line.
Don't Panic! We Can Expand Social Security and Medicare
There's no bad news on Social Security, and Medicare's outlook has improved. So how did the well-funded naysayers react to these positive developments? With fear, not wisdom.
Tastes Like Tax Avoidance: U.S. Company's Blend With Dannon Parent
An Illinois company is considering a combination with the French corporation that is the home of Dannon yogurt in the latest example of a corporate "inversion" designed to lower its U.S. tax bill.
This Sneak Proposal On Trade Numbers Would Mask Reality
Should an iPhone made in China and sold in England be counted as a U.S.-made manufacturing export? If a proposal to change the way our trade deficit is measured sneaks through, this is exactly what will happen.
Private Equity, It's Not Your Image That's The Problem
If the private equity industry wants to be seen as a force for good, it's going to have to stop engaging in the kind of financial engineering that weakens companies but still assures a handsome payday for a few owners.
Progressive Breakfast
Moral Mondays And Walking Mayor Come to DC Moral Mondays and “Walking Mayor” Come to Washington for Medicaid Expansion and Support for Rural Healthcare. Save Our Hospital: "Expanding Medicaid saves lives. When the North Carolina state legislature denied the Medicaid...
Keith Ellison and the Worker-Led Wage Wave [Video]
The real story about income inequality is what progressive activists are doing about it, says the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The latest wave of action will confront "wage theft."
Corporations Leaving U.S. and "Economic Patriotism"
Their headquarters, executives, operations, employees, customers and everything else stay here. They still use our courts and roads, etc. The only thing that changes is the taxes they pay.
A Dangerous Idea: The Progressive Vision Of American Exceptionalism
American exceptionalism sounds conservative. But you know what? For more than 200 years, American exceptionalism was a radical-democratic idea. And we should not forget it. Indeed, we should redeem it.
