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$5,000 For a Pair of Sandals: The Rich Are Different, Right Down to Their Shoes

Sara Robinson, AlterNet. April 24, 2012.

In a world where kids are starving and ice caps are melting, how can people spend $5K on shoes?

How You Can Have a Billion-Dollar Income in America and Pay No Taxes

Terrence McNally, AlterNet. April 20, 2011.

Tax journalist David Cay Johnston explains what's so rotten about our taxation system and the distribution of wealth in this country.

How You Pay the Tax Bills of Oil and Gas Investors

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 21, 2010.

A provision buried deep in the arcane rules of a federal agency gives some investors the ability to make working people pay a piece of their income taxes.

Victory: Taxing Wealth Dynasties Will Continue

Chuck Collins, AlterNet. October 5, 2009.

Last Monday, a coalition of lobbyists and families finally gave up on trying to abolish the federal estate tax, the only tax on inherited wealth.