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Articles on related issues
- Doing Debt Ceiling Battle the FDR Way Roosevelt kept the debate focused on taxing the rich. None of the debt ceiling “deals” last week asked the rich to pay a penny more. inequality temporarily triumphed. What ought we learn? We can have a more equal America. We just need to to fight for it.
Articles on Taxing the Rich
- Article on Millionaires Tax
- Californians back raising taxes on state's wealthy SF Chronicle 4/1/2011 by Joe Garofoli
- Op-Ed piece in the Oakalnd Tribune by Steve Gilbert 3/8/2011
- Tax the Super Rich Now or Face a Revolution Wall Street Journal/Market Watch article by Paul B. Farrell 3/29/2011
Links
- Official WebSite for the Millionaires Tax Initiative
- Stop Coddling the Super-Rich by Warren Buffett. Op-ed 8/14/2011 New York Times “My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice”. Warren E. Buffett
- The Truth About the Economy An insightful 2 minute video on the economy by Robert Reich a former US Secretary of Labor
- Wealth, Income, and Power This site has carefully researched and well explained facts on who has real power and how they exercise it. by Prof. G William Domhoff
- Who Pays Taxes in California Article by California Budget Project shows that the richest in California pay a lower effective tax rate then the rest fo us.
Reference material
- CA Franchise Tax Board2009 Annual Report—Statistical Appendix Tables Source of data on taxable income in excel and pdf
- CA Income Gap Widens A research paper from California Budget Project CBP
- Graphs showing Inequality in America from Mother Jones
- Inequality, Leverage and Crises IMF Working paper studies how high leverage and crises can arise as a result of changes in income inequlity. by Michael Kumhof and Romain Rancière
- Millionaire Migration and State Taxation Careful research shows little effect of raising State income taxes on millionaires leaving
- Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States: Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Squeeze—an Update to 2007, by Edward N. Wolff 2010
- Wealth, Income, and Power This site has carefully researched and well explained facts on who has real power and how they exercise it. by Prof. G William Domhoff
Videos
- Americans Need to Work less Video – an economist explains how productivity gains in the past were more shared – Juliet Schor
- The Truth About the Economy An insightful 2 minute video on the economy by Robert Reich a former US Secretary of Labor
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Put it on the Ballot – Nov 2012 Finally there is a an initiative that will help restore cuts by raising taxes only on those who can most afford it. The Millionaires Tax will: Develop a permanent revenue stream of $6.1 … Continue reading
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