Stories by Sam Pizzigati
Sam Pizzigati is the editor of the online weekly Too Much, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Posted on Feb 9, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Today we take the idea of a minimum wage for granted. Who knows what tomorrow may bring?
Posted on Jan 31, 2012, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
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.
Posted on Dec 13, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
You don't have to make a million to rate as an all-star greedster. You do have to be ruthless, self-absorbed and grossly insensitive.
Posted on Nov 27, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
America's rich haven't just become richer, according to a new study. They've become far more likely to live among their own kind.
Posted on Aug 31, 2011, Source: AlterNet
A new study looks at the worst executive excesses--while Congress continues to help CEOs hide their outrageous pay rates from the public.
Posted on Jul 24, 2011, Source: Campaign for America's Future
By feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, lawmakers have thrown a monstrous monkey wrench into our national finances.
Posted on May 16, 2011, Source: Blog for Our Future
Compare that to 1955, when the country's most affluent made far less money and paid 51 percent of their income in taxes.
Posted on Apr 4, 2011, Source: Blog for Our Future
Hedge fund honchos bet on everything from gold to lawsuits. But their big bet is that we won't wise up to the giveaway our current tax code ladles on them.
Posted on Mar 21, 2011, Source: Other Words
If the Right really believed that firms with lavishly paid execs can do without taxpayer support, they wouldn't be wasting their time ranting against public broadcasting.
Posted on Mar 20, 2011, Source: Blog for Our Future
A simple but powerful chant is now starting to reverberate, all across the country, in protests against budgets cuts gone wild.
Posted on Feb 11, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has had virtually no backers. Neither the White House nor Democratic lawmakers have done much to give its report legs.
Posted on Feb 1, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
In the middle decades of the 20th century, the steeply graduated progressive income tax meant that the super-rich saw their share of the nation’s income drop precipitously.
Posted on Jan 31, 2011, Source: Blog for Our Future
We historically, here in the United States, have had a word for power imbalances this striking and stark: plutocracy, or rule by the rich.
Posted on Jan 24, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Cuomo and Brown are attacking the notion that the public policies we choose, the public goods we provide, can create better lives -- the core of America’s middle class.
Posted on Jan 9, 2011, Source: Blog for Our Future
Corporate America is working feverishly behind the scenes to smother a new federal mandate to roll back excessive executive pay.
Posted on Jan 7, 2011, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
A widely overlooked provision in last month’s tax cut deal is going to speed even more wealth to America’s Paris Hilton set.
Posted on Dec 20, 2010, Source: Campaign for America's Future
They came, they saw, they took it all. Welcome to the world where thieves have no honor, and those who hone their talents hammering the rest of us are lavishly rewarded.
Posted on Dec 1, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
We have more inequality today than we had back in 1990, the year the UN Human Development Index first appeared.
Posted on Nov 19, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
In 2009, the top 100 private purveyors of public services gobbled up $130 billion in federal contracts. In 2003, nine CEOs at for-profit colleges took in over $45 million each.
Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
For the ultra-wealthy masked behind the shadowy network, political contributions offer a return few other investments can match.
Posted on Oct 21, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The study’s starkest data snapshot? Maybe this: Half the people aged 20 and over in the world today hold under 2 percent of world wealth.
Posted on Sep 28, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The ten richest Americans on the new Forbes list carry, all by themselves, more than the inflation-adjusted net worth of the entire initial Forbes 400 list back in 1982.
Posted on Sep 17, 2010, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
The power suits who run the for-profit educational industry enjoy paychecks in the multi-millions, often quadrupling the profit margins of defense contractors.
Posted on Jul 17, 2010, Source: Campaign for America's Future
The huge pay gaps between executives and workers enhance the sense of power bosses feel and cause them to objectify lower level employees.
Posted on Feb 10, 2010, Source: Campaign for America's Future
After corporations and rich folk began to complain, the White House scaled back its proposals aimed at companies that shift profits offshore.
Posted on Jan 27, 2010, Source: AlterNet
New scientific research shows that Wall Street's war on the middle class is sabotaging our longevity.
Posted on Dec 22, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.
Posted on Dec 2, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
We need more protection from corporate greed than the current mainstream antidotes provide. Americans get this. Too bad moderate reformers don't.
Posted on Nov 24, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Members of the super-rich elite don't care who gets burned by 30 years of tax cuts. Here's why we should.
Posted on Nov 17, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
As the big bank bonus grab shifts into overdrive, doing "God's work" has never seemed so lucrative.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, Source: Dollars and Sense
We don’t want our tax dollars aiding companies that increase social inequalities. So why do we let our tax dollars help companies that increase economic inequality?
Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.
Posted on Oct 13, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
As the activities of many are beginning to illustrate, conquering economic inequality means banding together.
Posted on Oct 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A new Institute for Policy Studies Report shows how big-business bubbles are keeping CEOs in the black -- and robbing the little guy.
Posted on Sep 28, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth.
Posted on Sep 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Outrageously large rewards for executives give executives an incentive to behave outrageously -- and engage in behaviors that put the rest of us at risk.
Posted on Aug 18, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
In 2007, the year before the Great Recession began, America's super rich partied — as never before. The evidence? We look at the year's freshly crunched income numbers.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
To become less unstable, states are going to have to first become less unequal.
Posted on Jul 1, 2009, Source: Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
In a down economy, apologists for the awesomely affluent are having to dig deep for inspiration. In the process, they're looking dopey.
Posted on Jun 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Obama administration has watered down the rules on executive pay into mushy prescriptions that pose no real threat to the Big Boys' windfalls.
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