As Markets Crashed, DeVos Sold Shares in Secretive Cayman Island Fund Billionaire Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sold up to $5 million in securities through an offshore fund that appears in the Paradise Papers.
Poorer Cities Spend More of Budget on Police, Even Where Crime Is Lower Data analysis of 473 cities nationwide finds that spending on police takes up almost one-third of municipal budgets, independently of local crime rates—with poorer cities spending a higher share.
Avoid Taxes, Receive Federal Bailouts It’s the common thread among a host of companies lining up to feed on a rescue package.
Richard Neal Is #1 in Corporate PAC Donations Neal, who chairs the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, got money from PACs of several corporations that had negative effective tax rates in 2018.
How to Pay For Medicare for All Without Raising Taxes: Cut the Pentagon’s Budget With a clearer picture of how Medicare for All can be financed through reducing military spending, voters can debate the merits of a single-payer system without needing to consider any new taxes.
Fossil Fuel Giants Are Benefiting From Negative Effective Tax Rates In 2018, fossil fuel-tied corporations that are driving our climate crisis disproportionately benefited from paying no federal income taxes.
Shadow Lobbyist Joe Crowley is Poised to Advance Shell Oil's Tax Interests The Bipartisan Policy Center announced that Crowley will lead an initiative to develop infrastructure funding proposals including ending the government's reliance on the gas tax. Crowley’s new lobbying firm has been pushing the same thing for years on behalf of Shell Oil.