by Sam Pizzigati | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Media darling Rand Paul is doing his best to end progressive taxation in America. Randolph Paul, over a half-century ago, helped make progressive taxation a prime building block for America’s middle class golden age. To stop politicos like Rand, we need to remember...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 25, 2013 | Blog
All across Corporate America, top execs are feathering their own nests at the expense of their workers. The French have a better idea. The founder of modern management science, Peter Drucker, considered excessive executive pay an assault on good enterprise management...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 18, 2013 | Blog
Egalitarian-minded academics have just subjected a central political question of our time to some rigorous research scrutiny. Billionaire Warren Buffett is still paying taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz last year collected $117.5...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 13, 2013 | Blog
The current European revolt against CEO greed, if successful, might leave Corporate Europe looking just like Corporate America — in the 1950s. In America today, the New York Times reports, we’re living in “a golden age” — for corporate profits. These earnings have...
by Sam Pizzigati | Mar 4, 2013 | Blog
Luxury fortresses. Armored cars. Helicopter commutes. The abominably unequal 'good life' may be closer than you think. Meanwhile, in South Africa . . . A dozen years ago, Brazil ranked as the world’s most unequal major nation. Brazil’s most affluent 10 percent were...
