by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
What does it mean when the owners of big companies say they will move because our corporate tax rates are "too high" and not "competitive"? Just who are we "competing" with, and for what? Extortion is the practice of obtaining something of value through fear, using...
by Richard Eskow | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Conservatism
The theme of Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged," according to Ms. Rand herself, “what happens to the world when the Prime Movers go on strike.” Those prime movers are corporate executives – “the motor of the world” – and Rand imagines what would happen if they all just went...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
As fast-food workers across the country strike for decent pay, Burger King is still preparing to abandon the U.S. as its home country. How does a burger company get flipped like this and who gets rich when it happens? Burger King is a company whose products encourage...
by Bill Scher | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog, Climate
Last week I noted that "Capping Carbon Costs Nothing", which is something we already knew but received renewed attention with the release of a new report from the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. As The New York Times summarized, while there is some...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
The Obama administration took executive action Monday to fight the trend of corporations "abandoning their U.S. citizenship" using the "inversion" tactic. The move earned praise today from a leading opponent of inversions, Citizens for Tax Fairness, which called the...
by Leo Gerard | Sep 23, 2014 | Blog, Democracy
The GOP is working desperately to deny the right to vote to citizens it doesn't like. You know, poor people, black people, Hispanic people, old people, female people, especially people it believes are inclined to vote for Democrats. Republican politicians have hatched...
