by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 9, 2012 | Blog
Corporate execs and billionaire ideologues are creating — at taxpayer expense — a network of schools where learning takes a back seat. The sounds of September: school bells ringing, looseleaf binders snapping open, sneakers squeaking on gymnasium floors. Next to apple...
by Sam Pizzigati | Sep 3, 2012 | Blog
In our current economic and political environment, we're letting top corporate executives expropriate our public 'property' for private gain. The resulting rewards, for both corporations and their CEOs, can be immense, as the recent Apple patent triumph over Samsung...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 26, 2012 | Blog, Minimum Wage
The national leader of one of America's feistiest unions is aiming to expand the economic fairness debate. He's proposing a cap on incomes at the top that rises only if incomes at the bottom rise first. With Labor Day fast approaching, what better time to reflect...
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 18, 2012 | Blog
The old robber barons exploited workers and gouged consumers. Today's robber barons are making millions off a new class of victims: average American taxpayers. Our nation’s tax code has become an incredibly powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay. Boeing makes airplanes....
by Sam Pizzigati | Aug 12, 2012 | Blog
The United States already sports an exceedingly rich people-friendly tax structure. But America's rich seem to have far more friendly tax models in mind. Like Singapore. Why do the mega rich in the United States feel so put upon? Their incomes are rising, after all,...
