Inside Job is a 2010 American documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 financial crisis. Ferguson, who began researching in 2008,[3] said the film is about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption",[4] amongst them conflicts of interest...
今年年初，美國南加州（又）發生震驚世界的大火。比較有趣的是，右派相信是因為政策不利、水庫沒水，所以導致大火延燒……
other countries should make market access to foreign multinationals (and their main owners) conditional on their paying a minimum amount of tax ... If billionaires refuse to pay taxes, market access for the firms they own should be denied
You have to give Donald Trump credit for one thing: for all his inconsistency on many issues, he believes deeply in high tariffs. He has been preaching that gospel for at least four decades, convinced that tariffs are the key to America’s future prosperity. Shortly after promising to “tariff and tax foreign countries to enri
target US multinationals and their owners directly. The world needs tariffs not for US exports, but for oligarchs
In 2017, the [Business Roundtable] group threw its support behind the first Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion tax-cut legislation, which overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy. Last year, it announced that it would spend “eight figures” lobbying to protect and extend the legislation’s business-friendly tax breaks. As for Biden’s 2022 Build Back Better initiative – which proposed modest tax increases on high earners to fund public services like education, health care, and infrastructure – the Business Roundtable voiced clear opposition
Christopher Marquis thinks the US Business Roundtable's April report should serve as a wake-up call to Democratic lawmakers.
While the Business Roundtable’s CEOs like to pay lip service to voluntary corporate-responsibility initiatives, they have strenuously objected to public policies that would require them to follow through
delivering real value to workers and the environment would cost money, which would reduce shareholder dividends and executive pay – the real priorities of the Business Roundtable’s members. In fact, the compensation of CEOs who signed the stakeholder-capitalism “commitment” has continued to reflect their success in delivering shareholder value. When the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, Marriott International almost immediately began furloughing most of its US workers – while paying out more than $160 million in quarterly dividends and seeking a raise for its CEO, a signatory of the 2019 statement
even from a commercial perspective, this approach is fundamentally flawed. A growing body of research shows that failure to account for social and environmental imperatives poses clear, material risks to firm operations and performance ... For example, companies with poor climate-risk management routinely face supply-chain instability, greater exposure to extreme weather events, and higher capital costs. In other words, the Business Roundtable’s opposition to environmentally-focused policies and proposals is not just hypocritical; from their own short-sighted shareholder-capitalist perspective
The new Business Roundtable Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation has received a great deal of support, as well as questions and…
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
they want even more tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks — which means even more money in their own pockets
Friends,The Business Roundtable is an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s biggest corporations, their most powerful voice in Washington.Last Wednesday, its chair, Joshua Bolten, told...
justice requires wealthy countries to compensate the poor for the damage that climate change causes them
The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study
Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes
Those in rich countries were significantly less willing to contribute 1%
Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not
主計總處時隔30年再次發布國富統計報告，公布台灣家庭財富分配統計結果，民國110年最富裕的20%家庭財富是新台幣5133萬元，財富資產最少的20%家庭，平均每戶僅有77萬元；兩族群差距高達66.9倍，明顯比民國80年差距16.8倍大很多。
行政院主計總處睽違30年，再次發布我國家庭財富分配統計，根據結果，1
睽違30年，主計總處今天再次公布財富分配統計，110年五等分位的家庭財富差距倍數擴大至66.9倍，台灣家庭財富吉尼係數則為0.606，優於其他國家，主計總處官員表示「我們財富分配比較均勻」。
主計總處今天公布最新家庭財富分配統計，110年底平均每家庭財富為新台幣1638萬元，但中位數僅894萬元，官員表示，兩者差距大意味著財富分配不均，不過強調經濟高度自由發展地區會出現的必然現象，世界各國都是如此。
勞力所得如薪資採累進稅率，而富人主要財富來源、錢滾錢的資本所得、利得卻採分離課稅，「資本所得越來越脫離掌握」，例如證券交易所得不課稅、股利所得僅課徵28％單一稅率，房地產部分，雖然105年實施房地合一稅有累進，但仍屬分離課稅。他強調，分離課稅無法綜合性考量，對於真正的富人有課稅效果
後20％家庭佔不到1％財富， 平均欠債卻最高達405萬元
早些年遺贈稅的確採用累進方式，最高稅率達50％，後來馬政府卻大幅調降至10％單一稅率，即使蔡政府將遺贈稅些微提高到20％（中間有分15%級距）
睽違30年，主計總處再次公布家庭財富分配統計，顯示貧富差距擴大，外界關注下一次公布統計是何時，主計總處主計長朱澤民表示，隨著調查技術與大數據發展，接下來會定期發布統計，「我認為4年做一次很恰當」。
the deliberate weakening of social protections has produced greater financial and economic insecurity
Joseph E. Stiglitz considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
neoliberalism simply did not deliver what it promised
countries under the sway of neoliberalism have consistently failed to enact strong regulations against pollution (or, in the US, to address the opioid crisis
unregulated markets are neither efficient nor stable
expanding the freedom of corporations curtails freedom across the rest of society
The freedom to pollute means worsening health (or even death, for those with asthma), more extreme weather, and uninhabitable land
what they earn was made possible by government investment in infrastructure, technology, education, and public health ... what they would have if they had been born in one of the many countries without the rule of law
Where would Elon Musk and Tesla be if not for the near-half-billion-dollar lifeline they received from President Barack Obama’s Department of Energy in 2010?
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,”
taxes are what it takes to establish the rule of law or provide any of the other public goods that a twenty-first-century society needs to function
if most people are forced to endure the insecurity of not having reliable health care or adequate incomes in old age, society has become less free: at a minimum, they lack freedom from the fear of how traumatic their future might be
dishonesty, socially destructive profiteering, and rent-seeking will prevail, public trust will continue to crumble, and materialism and greed will triumph
selfish
scoundrels and opportunists
a society without trust
if we want to live in a society that values all citizens and strives to create ways for them to live full and satisfying lives
people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare ... lack of job security
In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat.[1] Unlike the proletariat class of...
蒲公英族（英語：precariat；/prɪˈkɛəriət/)，或譯作「流眾」[1]、「不穩定無產者」[2]、「殆危族」、「飄零族」[3][4]等，在社会学和经济学中，是由飽受不稳定之苦的人组成的階級。蒲公英族是不稳定（precarious）与无产阶级（proletariat）的混成词。 [5][6]...
A growing body of research shows that the corporate rate cut has delivered large gains to top earners but done little for everyone else.
Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A 2025 course correction is needed.
“double damage” inflicted by the wealthiest corporations and individuals who disproportionately contribute to climate breakdown through their outsized carbon emissions and who rob governments of the funding needed to address the fallout from climate breakdown by abusing tax
“Double damage” inflicted by wealthiest corporations and individuals highlights twin crises of climate breakdown and inequality The amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage. In a […]
amount of tax lost every year to multinational corporations and wealthy individuals using tax havens is on par with the amount of money needed each year to cover the estimated cost of climate-induced loss and damage
