Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

Not All Taxes Have to Hurt

| | Economy / BusinessTaxes needn’t Be a strain; If rich folks help us Share the pain. Taxes are deeply emotional and make for hot political theater. Whenever the T-word is blurted out, our anxiety zooms. That’s the whole idea. Millionaires, who rightfully are the target for...
Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation

Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation

| Nov 4, 2011 | UncategorizedTalk about piling on. Bill Gates, the Pope, Michael Moore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1,000 parliamentarians, 1,000 economists, the world’s major labor leaders, Occupy Wall Street protesters, Oxfam and other major development groups, thousands of nurses, the...
Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit

Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit

| Nov 3, 2011 | Economy / BusinessThe world’s second-richest man and a group of American nurses on the frontlines of the Occupy Wall Street protests came to the G20 summit in Cannes, France this week to advocate for the same thing. Bill Gates came because French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked...
The Lineup: Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011

The Lineup: Week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2011

| Oct 31, 2011 | Roundup|UncategorizedIn this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Deborah Burger calls for a new Wall Street tax and Libby Reinish reports on the quiet consolidation underway in the coverage of local TV news. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly...