“Do You Pay Your Taxes? Bank of America Doesn’t”
The latest from a growing international movement to make corporate tax dodgers pay … so public services don’t have to. In 2009 and 2010, according to their SEC K-10 report, filed on Friday, Bank of...
View ArticleTaxes and the Common Good
It's time to reform our tax system -- to quit rewarding obscene wealth, Wall Street gambling, and corporate polluters. When Jesus invited the tax collector Zacchaeus down from his sycamore tree, did...
View ArticleStop Corporate Tax Dodging: Talking Points and Background Information
Most of us pay more in taxes than many U.S. corporations, and corporate tax avoidance has increased dramatically in the last 50 years. Tags: Originally published on IPS Blogread more
View ArticleGeneral Electric: King of the Tax Dodgers
General Electric Company -- known for its light bulbs, refrigerators -- and lately, for its nuclear reactors -- is one of the country's biggest tax dodgers. Congressional Republicans are about to cut...
View ArticleA Grassroots Call to Tackle Corporate Tax Dodging
The growing use of offshore tax havens drains treasuries around the world, including developing countries attempting to provide services for their own citizens. Across the United States, there is a new...
View ArticleHey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual Revenue?
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the superrich and vast corporations. Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers.Tags: Originally published on...
View ArticleWe Don't Need to Shut Down the Government: Tax the Wealthy and Deadbeat...
If corporations and households with $1 million income paid at the same levels they did in 1961, the Treasury would collect an additional $716 billion a year. Tags: Originally published on...
View ArticleUnnecessary Shutdown, Unnecessary Austerity
Government must stop doling out ever-larger tax breaks to the superrich and vast corporations.Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers.They're calling for deep cuts...
View ArticleFinally, Obama's Talking about Taxing the Wealthy
He has public opinion on his side.President Obama has broken through the silence about revenue in Washington's dominant budget and deficit debate. "At a time when the tax burden on the wealthy is at...
View ArticleWhat Would Jesus Tax?
In the face of state and federal budget cuts, many of us have been fasting and contemplating the question: “What would Jesus cut?“ In light of tax day, however, we might equally contemplate: “What...
View ArticleOn Tax Day, Remember the Tax Dodgers
If corporations and households with $1 million income paid at the same levels they did in 1961, the Treasury would collect an additional $716 billion a year – or $7 trillion over a decade.As you pony...
View ArticleTax Day 2011: "The More You Make, The Less You Pay"
Corporations are dodging taxes, governments are cutting social services, and Americans are fed up. How they're fighting back. At a time when federal and state lawmakers are grappling with huge budget...
View Article99 to 1:
How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works for 99% of people and businesses, not just the richest...
View ArticleTO DIVEST OR NOT DIVEST?
The Pros and Cons of Fossil Fuel Divestment Talking Points MAY 13th FORUM: DIVEST OR NOT DIVEST?read more
View Article11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry
A future without oil, coal, and gas companies is being forged by individual, institutional and religious investorsThere is a robust debate happening in university halls, around religious congregations,...
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