Sam Pizzigati
LATEST ARTICLES BY Sam Pizzigati
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Opinion
$5.2 billion McDonald’s CEO has $8.25 per hour mom arrested
October 24, 2013Her treatment is one of many examples of how the gap between the rich and the poor isn't just a modern phenomenon; these days it's grown into a chasm.
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U.S.
Plutocratic push at the Supreme Court
October 17, 2013Watergate? If the Supreme Court ends all limits on what our super rich can throw into election campaigns, U.S. politics faces dangers more troubling than anything Richard Nixon ever created.
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U.S.
A rising tide lifts only yachts?
September 19, 2013Letting wealth concentrate "at the very top," President Obama said, has been both "morally wrong" and "bad economics."
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Opinion
Does inequality have a silver lining?
August 14, 2013An insider is spilling the beans on the great unsaid in charitable circles: You can't ignore inequality and hope to fix an unequal world.
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U.S.
Snooping and spying for profit
June 19, 2013Protecting privacy in a dangerous world will never be easy. But we'll never have even a shot at protecting it until we take the profit out of violating it.
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Opinion
How to tax the rich and audit them too!
April 17, 2013Auditors generally do a decent job identifying how much wealthy taxpayers are trying to shortchange Uncle Sam. But they're only examining a fraction of the returns the wealthy file.
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U.S.
Two tales of jackpots and taxes
April 8, 2013Our nation's tax experts no longer think about taxes as a tool for combating our "undue concentration of wealth." They see taxes as a matter of raising revenue.
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Opinion
News clips from the world of the wealthy
March 7, 2013The next time a rich corporate chieftain whines about higher taxes or says he's "just like you and me," take him to Disneyland. It may remind him how he's not.
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