by Dave Johnson | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog
Amidst all the news about Burger King – another company renouncing its US "citizenship" to avoid paying taxes for the roads, courts, police and the rest of the government services that made them prosperous – an idea that Campaign for America's Future has been...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog, Health, Tax Reform
Our economy is broken. There’s one economy for the wealthy, and another for the rest of us. This division has been worsened by the behavior of corporate executives who manage their corporations for short-term personal gain rather than for long-term fiscal soundness....
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog, Tax Reform
Burger King is the latest company announcing plans to renounce its U.S. citizenship in order to dodge taxes. It plans to buy Tim Hortons and then pretend Tim Hortons bought them so they can claim to be Canadian. (Tim Hortons renounced its own U.S. citizenship in 2009...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog, Trade
The International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled last week that South Korean companies are "dumping" steel pipes, tubes and fittings used by oil companies – known formally as oil country tubular goods (OCTG) – into the U.S. market. "Dumping" means selling for...
by Sharon Davies | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
“. . . the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” –W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk The nation’s focus on the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri confers yet another opportunity for...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
Europe's economic depression has now lasted longer than the Great Depression of the 1930s. Meanwhile, America's "Great Recession" also drags on thanks to cutbacks in government spending since the stimulus. Europe's leaders somehow were convinced that austerity –...
