Wealthy donors Wayne Huizenga Jr. and Jeff Vinik lobbied then-Gov. Rick Scott for the lucrative tax break — and won it. Poorer communities lost out.
As gross as income inequality is, though, it's dwarfed by the lesser-known wealth disparity that has engulfed our land, mocking our egalitarian pretensions.
I'd like to personally bop over the head the next Democrat who says that Michael Bloomberg shouldn't be running for president because he's a billionaire.
The idea is a direct challenge to President Trump, who once backed a wealth tax but in 2017 enacted a dramatic tax cut that favored the rich.
Inequality will not fix itself. We the People must intervene to keep greed and wealth concentration from suffocating our society.
The combine was hailed at the time as a whiz-bang deal. Four years later, Kraft Heinz's sales have slumped and profits are tumbling.
Moody's economist Mark Zandi says that because of the 2017 tax law, U.S. house prices overall are about 4 percent lower than they’d otherwise be.
The Treasury Dept. is mulling plans to eliminate an Obama-era regulation meant to discourage companies from moving their cash offshore to avoid paying taxes