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A small sales tax on Wall Street reaps big rewards
By Jennifer Flynn, managing director, Health GAP - 01/08/13 02:45 PM ET One has to wonder if Paul Schott Stevens’ “Don’t enact financial transaction taxes,” December 20, 2012, is more about protecting...
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Tax Avoidance On the Rise: It’s Twice the Amount of Social Security and Medicare
Common Dreams, 1/9/13 by Paul Buchheit Three trillion dollars a year. That's how much the wealthiest Americans avoid through the system of subsidies and schemes and sweet deals that deprive...
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How to Heal America
This country, despite all its wealth, has come to share a condition from which most of the world suffers: Growing divide between rich and poor. A Robin Hood Tax can help jump start a real recovery to...
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Treasury Nominee Jack Lew Needs to Get Behind the Robin Hood Tax
Advocates for American communities still reeling from the 2008 financial collapse are calling upon the Senate Finance Committee this week to press Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew for commitments to...
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Jack Lew: Robin Hood’s Got Your Back; Now Get Behind the Ellison Bill
A half dozen Robin Hood Tax Campaigners, wearing their signature hats, made their way into a packed room to attend Jack Lew’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee yesterday to be...
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John Nichols: Avoid sequester cuts by taxing Wall Street
Associate Editor John Nichols has been with The Capital Times since 1993 and has become one of Wisconsin's best-known progressive voices. He is the author of seven books on politics and the media and...
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Now is the Time for a Financial Transaction Tax: European Progress and...
Europe’s FTT came to Washington this week in the form of a presentation at The Center for American Progress. Dubbed “Now is the Time for a Financial Transaction Tax: European Progress and Prospects...
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Lew’s Latest Shows US Increasingly Out of Step in Holding Wall Street...
How far behind the rest of the world can we continue to fall on holding the Wall Street traders and tycoons to account for the mess they made of our economy? The sharp contrast Monday between the Obama...
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Robin Hood Tax and Sequestration
Despite mounting evidence that austerity measures lower growth and do further harm to American communities, proponents of the “sequestration” that took effect Friday are pressing forward with budget...
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Fair Taxation, Not Sequestration
Cuts in baby formula for the poorest amidst cries on Wall Street that “the market wants more austerity” As the harsh reality of the sequestration sets in, the opening salvo of a dire national...
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No More Excuses. Soaring Market Latest Evidence of Need to Tax Wall Street
Now that the boom times have returned for Wall Street with consecutive days of record market highs, the time for excuses must end, and the Obama administration and Congress should join with the other...
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Reports: US 'Corporate Tax Dodgers' Keeping More Money Overseas
Andrea Germanos, staff writer at Common Dreams Why should ordinary taxpayers have to sacrifice while highly profitable corporations are using accounting acrobatics and tax havens to avoid paying their...
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HR 1579 -- The New Bill to Rebuild the Nation With a Tax on Wall Street
By Deborah Burger, Co-President of America's RN Union: National Nurses United This is a huge day," Rep. Keith Ellison announced April 17 at a press conference within view of the Capitol, referring to...
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THE FACTS ARE ALREADY IN: NO TO KXL AND FRACKING
President Obama’s speech this week at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., acknowledged the over-arching significance of climate change, calling for America to “help forge a truly global solution...
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Spinning the Jobs Crisis
“Jobs Data Is Strong, but Not Too Strong, Easing Fed Fears,” announced the New York Times headline last week. What underpins this claim was an addition of 195,000 jobs in June, enough to sustain an...
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