Billionaires and Taxes – Winning at Their Own Game
Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, accumulate little no wealth and pay taxes. But the big capitalists live in a different world. As their wealth expands, their effective tax rates decline.
MacKenzie Scott Gives Away $2.7 Billion
MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is giving away $2.7 billion. But who generated that wealth? Why should it be up to rich people like her to decide what happens with that wealth?
Abortion Rights: A Brave Young Voice!
We are thrilled to reprint the speech of Paxton Smith, the Valedictorian speaker who went off script at her Texas high school graduation.
Why We Celebrate Juneteenth
Today we celebrate Juneteenth – the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. On this day we commemorate June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived in Galveston, Texas with 1,800 Union soldiers and announced that slavery was officially abolished in Texas. Although Abraham […]