by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 12, 2011 | Blog
Another super-slick global financial analysis firm has just tallied how much net worth is sloshing around in the pockets of the world’s most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting — and start the taxing? In today’s astoundingly...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 6, 2011 | Blog
The defenders of privilege just don’t seem to get it. In truly decent societies we measure success by how many people are leading rich, fulfilling lives, not by counting how many people are becoming rich beyond measure. Mobility, apologists for America's grand...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 6, 2011 | Blog
All sorts of federal agencies publish income inequality data. But only the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office directly takes on America's income inequality deniers. Back in 1979, America’s most affluent 1 percent took home — after federal taxes — about the same...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 3, 2011 | Blog
The power suits who run America's biggest corporations, a new Citizens for Tax Justice report shows, are sidestepping about half the taxes our basic tax code says they ought to be paying. Over a quarter century ago, in 1984, the Washington, D.C.-based Citizens for Tax...
by Sam Pizzigati | Oct 24, 2011 | Blog
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, where the following originally appeared. Can a small army of policy wonks, working in a bipartisan political environment...