Sam Pizzigati
| Hometown: | Kensington, MD |
| Interests: | An Economy for All, inequality, wealth distribution |
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Sam's Voice
- February 5, 2012 - 3:49pm
Any resemblance between democracy and U.S. Presidential politics has become, in our new super PAC era, purely coincidental. The only mystery: Why aren't billionaires placing even bigger bets?
- January 30, 2012 - 12:47pm
President Obama has proposed a specific new minimum tax rate for millionaires. Should America's rich feel angry or relieved? We check the IRS tax data archives for an answer.
- January 22, 2012 - 9:17pm
Changes in state tax laws now encourage America’s awesomely affluent to create “perpetual” trusts for their heirs. The combination of these new laws and new technology, legal scholars are warning, now allows the “dead hand” of the past to rule over the living. In essence, immortality for the rich.
- January 14, 2012 - 9:23pm
The rich don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run high. They don't much like paying taxes when tax rates run low either.
- January 7, 2012 - 3:19pm
Today's swaggering rich are increasingly stuffing their dollars into investments that do America's 99 percent not one whit of good.
- December 11, 2011 - 8:42pm
One puts on football pageants. Another makes millions on a virtual farm. From Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies inequality weekly, we present the year's ten most avaricious. All ten remind us just how much needs to change, economically and politically, in 2012 and beyond.
- December 4, 2011 - 3:48pm
Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us — bombshell new research shows — for their continuing awesome good tidings.
- November 27, 2011 - 9:05pm
Today's super rich can't turn tin into gold. But they can get Uncle Sam to loan them free money. At the expense, of course, of America's bottom 99 percent.
- November 20, 2011 - 6:50pm
Back in 1970, the vast majority of Americans lived in neighborhoods that mixed people of substantial and modest means. No more. In fact, says a new study, the share of Americans living amid intense income segregation has more than doubled.
- November 12, 2011 - 2:58pm
Another super-slick global financial analysis firm has just tallied how much net worth is sloshing around in the pockets of the world’s most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting — and start the taxing?
