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After $53 Billion in European Sales Last Year, Amazon Paid $0 in Corporate Taxes

An activist holding a sign demanding online retailer Amazon pay its share of taxes joins a protest outside the Axel Springer building on April 24, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: Sean Gallup via Getty Images)

Just 12 Super-Rich Donors Spent $3.4 Billion to Sway US Elections Since 2009: Study

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

"That's what holds in place our rigged, corrupt economic and political systems," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in response to a new report detailing how wealthy megadonors—including Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City who was identified as the single biggest spender on federal political campaigns between 2009 and 2020—are undermining U.S. democracy. (Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

"The time is now to get big money out of politics, and move to the public funding of elections," said Sen. Bernie Sanders in response.

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IMF Calls for Taxing World's Richest to Curb Inequality, Stave Off Social Unrest

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

A demonstrator throws stones at a police vehicle during a protest against extreme economic inequality in Santiago, Chile on November 29, 2019. (Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP via Getty Images)

"Governments need to provide everyone with a fair shot—enabling all individuals...

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'What You're Doing Is Historical!' Bernie Sanders Rallies With Amazon Workers in Alabama

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Sen. Bernie Sanders traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to support Amazon warehouse workers trying to unionize. (Photo: Bernie Sanders/YouTube/screen grab)

"If history teaches us anything, it is that big money interests do not just...

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People participate in a "March on Billionaires" event on July 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Hospital-Owning Frist Family 'Made a Killing' During Pandemic, With Wealth Soaring by $8.1 Billion

People participate in a "March on Billionaires" event on July 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

To Help Fund Covid Recovery and Redress Inequality, Warren Unveils Wealth Tax on 'Ultra-Millionaires' and Billionaires

"This is not a feel-good story," said Public Citizen on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. "It's a dystopian nightmare." (Photo: Twitter screengrab from ABC7 News)

America 'Should Be Ashamed': Texas Teen Forced to Use College Savings to Prevent Mom's Eviction

Amazon Prime delivery van parked outside apartment building, Forest Hills, Queens, NY. (Photo: Lindsey Nicholson Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Warnings of Growing 'Surveillance Empire' as AI Van Cameras Give Amazon 'Roaming Eyes in Every Neighborhood'

An Amazon Flex driver loads their personal vehicle with packages outside the 1.2 million-square-foot BWI2 Amazon Fulfillment Center in the Chesapeake Commerce Center on April 14, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

'How Greedy Can Amazon and Bezos Get?': Corporate Behemoth to Pay $62 Million Fine for Stealing Drivers' Tips

Argentina's Congress on December 4, 2020 approved a one-time levy on the country's 12,000 richest citizens to fund pandemic recovery measures. (Photo: Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images)

Argentina Passes "Millionaire's Tax" to Fund Covid-19 Recovery

Activists of Sammilito Garments Sramik Federation (Combined Garments Workers Federation) march for fair wages and union rights for all Amazon supply chain workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 27, 2020. (Photo: Mamunur Rashid/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Progressive Coalition Stages Global Black Friday Protests to 'Make Amazon Pay'

Ahead of Thanksgiving, millions of families are in need of food assistance due to Covid-19 related layoffs and the expiration of federal unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and 649 other billionaires in the U.S. have amassed a combined $1 trillion in gains since the pandemic began in March 2020. (Photos: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket and Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Stock Market Soars and Billionaire Wealth Swells by $1 Trillion as Food Lines Stretch 'As Far As the Eye Can See'

Amazon workers in Germany are striking Tuesday and Wednesday for better pay, safer working conditions, and the right to organize free from the e-commerce company's pervasive surveillance and harassment. (Photo: Twitter screengrab).

Amazon Workers in Germany Strike on Prime Day for Better Pay and Right to Organize 'Without Big Brother Watching'

A coalition of progressive lawmakers, union leaders, and social justice advocates on Thursday unveiled the "People's Charter," a political agenda intended to outline how working people can come together to transform the U.S. from a country that works for "the privileged and powerful few" to one that "cares for all of us." (Photo: People's Charter)

Demanding a Nation That 'Cares for All' Not Just the Wealthy Few, Progressives Unveil People's Charter

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with Amazon India Chief Amit Agarwal during the company's annual Smbhav event at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium on January 16, 2020 in New Delhi, India. (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint via Getty Images)

'How Their Rotten System Works': Global Billionaire Wealth Surged to Record $10.2 Trillion Amid Covid-19 Catastrophe

A man preaches on the street about the dire state of the economy on August 25, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

'Completely Upside Down': As Most Americans Struggled During First Six Months of Pandemic, Billionaire Wealth Surged by $845 Billion

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Americans for Tax Fairness

Billionaire Wealth Grew by $845 Billion, or 29%, as America Struggled Through First Six Months of Pandemic

Common Cause

Common Cause Urges FEC Rulemaking to Prohibit Billionaires from Evading Limits on Contributions to Party Committees as Michael Bloomberg Did

Institute for Policy Studies

5 Months Into Pandemic, Billionaires’ Total Wealth Has Ballooned by Nearly $800 Billion

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Progressives Are Coming For Wealthy Tax Evaders

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It Is Time for a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires’ Windfall Gains

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The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers’ Life Expectancy

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