Blogs
Blair Bowie: How Super PACs Are Auctioning Our Democracy to the Highest Bidder, and How We Can
We've determined that Super PACs are like kryptonite for our democracy. What can we do to fight back against this menace?
How to Become Wealthy Affiliates?
Affiliate marketing is not new to the Internet. In fact, affiliate marketing was around even before the Internet was even a concept. However, the Internet has been a boon to millions of affiliate marketers by providing them with a marketing tool to reach out to thousands of more prospective
Maxim Thorne: Giving Thanks for a Meritocracy Instead of Aristocracy
Although I appreciate all the good philanthropy does, I wish to alter the way supersized philanthropy operates in America as part of my commitment to keep America true to our founding freedoms.
Sam Pizzigati: The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 Trillion
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?
Mitchell Bard: Income Inequality Is the Achilles Heel in the GOP Strategy to Demonize Occupy Wall
Give Rick Perry credit for his honesty. He just articulated out loud what is the accepted dogma of the modern Tea Party-owned Republican party, completely dedicated to protecting the wealthy and corporations on the backs of the (rapidly shrinking) middle class.
Chuck Collins: A Tax Plan to Rally Around: The Buffett Rule
Obama has put forward a revenue proposal worthy of support and organizing. Progressives need to engage the media and our neighbors -- and dramatize the reality that a majority support increasing taxes on millionaires and corporate tax dodgers.
Robert Lenzner: Obama's Surprise Yearend Gift To Wealthy Americans And Their Heirs
No one expected the Obama administration to give wealthy Americans the ability to give away tax free up to $5 million in 2011 or 2012 to anyone including children, grandchildren or friends. Couples will be able to give away $5 million each or $10 million among as many members of their family as
William K. Black: The Effort to Claim That Economists Support Obama's Capitulation on Tax Cuts for
You know the Obama administration is desperate when it creates a web page citing economists who support its capitulation on taxes. And what do you know, these economists are all "wealth managers" or from major banks. This shows that Obama is continuing to promote the views of his virulent
Robert Greenwald: What Do Snooki, Hugh Hefner and the Bush Tax Cuts Have in Common?
Extending tax cuts to the richest 2% of Americans would cost our country $700 billion in new debt. At a time when nearly 15 million Americans are out of work, Congress' priority needs to be the 98% of Americans who need the most support.
Linda McQuaig: The Trouble With Billionaires
Philanthropy provides the rich with some significant benefits. The benefits to the public are less clear, once the lost tax revenues are factored in.
