by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 27, 2010 | Blog
Progressives in the U.S. Senate have introduced a potent package of estate tax reforms that would, if enacted, start seriously trimming America's most super-sized hoards of private wealth. Back a hundred summers ago in 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt —...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 20, 2010 | Blog
Our economy would become the world’s most innovative, our elites have assured us over the past 30 years, if we gave our rich enough incentives to innovate. We kept to our end of the bargain. So where’s the innovation? The pollsters at Gallup have never asked Americans...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 13, 2010 | Blog
An emergency 1 percent 'wealth tax' on the nation's richest 1 percent could raise enough revenue to keep all our teachers on the job and libraries open. But our dysfunctional political system can't even raise that possibility. Last year may have been the worst year,...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog
Britain's new Conservative Party prime minister has an idea for ending pay excess in the public sector. Should overpaid execs in the private sector — in the United States — now be starting to shudder? Conservatives politicians have always enjoyed bashing...
by Sam Pizzigati | May 31, 2010 | Blog
With millions of Americans out of work and hurting, lawmakers who claim they worry about budget deficits spent last week forcing 'compromises' that will save hedge fund kingpins billions in taxes. You want to lead a charmed existence? Just start up your own private...
