Sam Pizzigati
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Pizzigati
-
En español
Nueva idea en Los Ángeles: gravar a los ricos para albergar a las personas sin hogar
July 11, 2022Todos los ingresos de este nuevo impuesto sobre la rotación de propiedades por valor de más de $5 millones se destinarán a crear oportunidades de vivienda seguras para familias de L.A. con recursos económicos limitados.
Read more -
U.S.
New idea in L.A. – Tax the rich to house the homeless
July 8, 2022On the ballot in the election this year is a new tax on the rich that kicks in every time a local mansion is sold.
Read more -
Opinion
Billionaires’ shiny utopias are dulling our democracy
November 1, 2021The fact that an occasional billionaire is decent does not negate the problems with having billionaires in the first place.
Read more -
News
Inequality in the U.S. is much more than a moral disgrace
September 1, 2021It is already laying the groundwork for the destruction of the productive capacity of the entire U.S., economy
Read more -
Politics
Inequality and the iron law of decaying public services
November 19, 2019Chronically understaffed local fire departments simply don’t have the resources to handle Act #1 of what climate change has in store for us.
Read more -
Opinion
Canadian health care getting attention in U.S. election; how about income inequality?
September 13, 2019The faster that income and wealth concentrate at the top, the worse off the daily lives of average people become.
Read more -
U.S.
Have the rich always laughed stiff tax rates away?
March 1, 2019No wonder the U.S. finishes near the top of the world’s wealthier nations in the income inequality spread between the rich and the rest of us.
Read more -
News
The House has gone Democratic. Can its majority now go bold?
November 21, 2018
Read more