Blog: Policy
They fanned out across the country from Los Angeles to Phoenix, Chicago, south to Atlanta and Miami, to the towns of Western Massachusetts, in New York City and beyond, and they entered offices on Capitol Hill in a national “Educate Congress” letter-drop campaign. 190 members of Congress were delivered this urgent message, a reminder that the country’s deteriorating condition needs to be addressed with meaningful policies that bring...
Among the most critical goals set forth in the Inclusive Prosperity Act, H.R. 1579, reintroduced in Congress on April 17 by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), is to “create good paying jobs by… investing in public sector jobs and green jobs.” Sec. 2 (13)(B)(ii) Other facets of this important legislation – investing in “transportation including public mass transit and an infrastructure bank that promotes environmentally...
With the passage in the U.S. Senate Monday of a new sales tax on internet purchasers, activists in the Robin Hood Tax Campaign today asked, “if we can tax the world wide web, why not the world wide banks?”
The Marketplace Fairness Act would target what the National Conference of State Legislatures estimates is $23.3 billion in lost sales tax revenue in 2012 for sales made on line rather than at brick and mortar stores.
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“Financial engineering,” marked by betting in financial markets, high-frequency trades and other forms of financial speculation, continues to play a very large role in the world economy, even after the financial crisis of 2008, when rampant speculation caused a crash and left communities the world over in ruins. Many in these communities have yet to see a real recovery.
A real recovery is the goal of the Robin Hood Tax,...
