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Hostage-Taking Using the Debt Ceiling
The debt ceiling is used to take the country hostage demanding spending cuts as ransom. Cutting through the noise, we discuss how it works and possible…
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Reining In the Imperial Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is an instrument of minority rule, made more consequential by its growing power over our democracy. We discuss proposals to rein in…
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Taxing Capital Gains as Ordinary Income
Capital gains get preferential tax treatment. A look-back approach can be used to tax capital gains as ordinary income, eliminating the tax system's…
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Reducing the Political Power of Corporate Money
Proposals to change the tax system to incentivize corporations to accept limits on political spending.
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Turning Money Into Power
How our campaign finance system turns money into power without accountability
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Why Corporate Earnings are Soaring
Forty years of the mantra of shareholder value have worked to change our system to bring corporate profit to new heights. Corporations today have…
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High-Flying Corporations
Corporations are more profitable than ever
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Redistributing Wealth
Tax expenditures redistribute wealth — upward!
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Growing Oligarchs
How our tax system helps people become oligarchs
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