What I’m Giving Up in 2012
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
For the Corporate 1 Percenters, a 50 Percent Tax Discount
Corporations have achieved total tax loophole parity with America’s individual super rich.
Food System Pays Dearly as Wall Street Occupies Washington
It’s nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn’t been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists.
How Corporations Built to Loot Lobby to Win
With a small army of lobbyists, WIN America corporations twist politicians into giving them tax breaks that hurt the rest of us.
WIN America Coalition Seeks to Pad Pockets with “Tax Holiday”
Tax holiday proponents have delivered losses to American workers.
Job Destroyers Don’t Deserve a Tax Holiday
When thinks tanks from the left and the right agree on something, Congress should pay attention.
Mitt Romney Believes in Corporate America
He chooses to ignore that even as corporate profits soar and the rich get richer, unemployment remains high and millions of Americans are tumbling from the middle class into poverty.
Dr. National and Mr. Transnational
Pay my fair share of taxes? What is this, socialism?
Occupy DC: My Speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The chamber helps the “built-to-loot” companies.
Think Tanks on the Right and Left Agree: Corporate Tax Holidays Lead to Layoffs, Not Jobs
Left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies and right-leaning Heritage Foundation release the same report findings on the same day: Corporations that claimed tax holidays in 2004 pocketed the cash and downsized workers.
America Loses: Corporations That Take “Tax Holidays” Slash Jobs
Some of America’s most flush corporations are demanding a tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore. But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover.
Uncle Sam Should Support Built-to-Last Companies, Not Built-to-Loot Enterprises
There’s nothing holding back the corporations demanding another tax holiday from investing in America right now.
The Corporate Takeover of the 2012 Presidential Election
Super PACs represent the Enronization of our democracy.
CEOs Rewarded for Corporate Tax Dodging
Shareholders should reward CEOs for building better products or delivering better services, not for accounting gymnastics that game their tax bills down.
Press Conference Call (recording): The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging
On a press conference call on Wednesday, August 31, report co-authors Chuck Collins and Scott Klinger discuss the 25 CEOs who were paid more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in taxes, as well as other report findings, and answer reporters’ questions about the report.