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Corporate tax chartbook: How corporations rig the rules to dodge the taxes they owe
Rich multinational corporations avoiding their fair share of U.S. taxes means that domestic firms and American workers have to foot the bill. It also means that corporations are not paying their fair share for our infrastructure, schools, public safety, and legal systems, despite depending on all of these services for their profitability.
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California Is a Governor’s Signature Away From Reining in Policing for Profit. The Federal Government and Other States Should Follow Its Lead.
It may come as a surprise, but throughout the country, police officers are legally allowed to take and keep your cash and property — even if you are never charged or arrested for a crime. All it takes is officers claiming they think your belongings were obtained through illegal means. How about your due process and personal property rights? They’re out the window under most state and federal civil asset forfeiture laws.
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EPI and ATF highlight the $700 billion multinationals owe on their offshore profits
America’s biggest and most powerful corporations continue to claim they are damaged by the 35 percent U.S. corporate tax rate when it comes to international competition, but the facts prove that simply isn’t true. A newly-released online resource compiled by Americans for Tax Fairness and the Economic Policy Institute shows U.S. corporate profits are near record highs while revenue from corporate taxes is near record lows, as a share U.S. GDP, over the last six decades. Moreover, multinational corporate effective tax rates are one half or less than the statutory rate.
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Putting the Clinton Foundation in Context: Corruption Plain on the Face of It
"There have been hundreds of thousands of words, perhaps millions, written about the lack of performance of the Clinton Foundation in Haiti — and evidence of the ugly picture is in the fact that the best “program” the Foundation can come up with to feature after the hundreds of $millions were given after the Haiti earthquake is what I just documented — acting as a pass-through for funds to buy land for a boutique coffee company to single-source exotic coffee from one of the poorest countries on earth." By Amy Sterling Casil.
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The Secret Justice System That Lets Executives Escape Their Crimes
A parallel legal universe, open only to corporations and largely invisible to everyone else, helps executives convicted of crimes escape punishment. Part one of a BuzzFeed News investigation. By Chris Hamby.
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How An Albuquerque DA Took On Her Own Police Department And Lost...
She took on her own police department. She lost everything. By Albert Samaha.
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Bernie Sanders’ new group is already in turmoil
Key staffers quit amid lingering tensions from the Vermont senator’s campaign. By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Gabriel Debenedetti.
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Communist land grab haunts Warsaw’s mayor
The decades-old issue of confiscated properties could upend the capital’s mayor.
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Smári McCarthy: From the Panama Papers to the Pirate Party
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Why outcome of Kansas voter ID law case is crucial for our country’s future
It’s already hard enough to get voters to the polls. Kansas made it even harder with its voter ID law, which asks residents registering to vote for proof of citizenship beyond what is required by federal law. Now, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is in a federal appeals court to argue for keeping the law, and if he prevails, that could have frightening ramifications beyond Kansas.
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Clinton Foundation Charity Grade: D — Close All Branches Now
“The Foundation took its current activities and compiled them into a ‘mission.’ So our action words are ‘convene,’ ‘improve,’ ‘increase,’ ‘reduce,’ ‘create,’ and ‘help.’ In my estimation, the only part of that which is able to be documented is ‘convene.’ They do hold those gala meetings with regularity.” By Amy Sterling Casil.
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Another reason to hate Mylan, which jacked up the price of life-saving EpiPens: It's a tax dodger
Mylan is one of the leading exploiters of the technique known as inversion, in which a U.S. company cuts its tax bill by acquiring a foreign firm and moving its tax domicile to the acquired company’s homeland.
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Condemnation of Charter Schools Exposes a Rift Over Black Students
Long championed as a lifeline for poor black children, the schools have recently been denounced by two civil rights organizations, which called for a moratorium on charters. By Kate Zernike.
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How Lending Club’s Biggest Fanboy Uncovered Shady Loans
If you knew where to look inside the loan company, things were worse than anybody realized. By Max Chafkin and Noah Buhayar.
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Zephyr Teachout challenges vulture-fund billionaire Paul Singer to a debate
Zephyr Teachout for Congress 2016
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Good Enough for Government Work
Conservatism in the tank. By Jim Newell.
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Wikileaks offers $20k reward over dead DNC staffer, but won’t confirm he leaked emails
The whistleblowing organization Wikileaks wants to catch those responsible for the murder of Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer Seth Rich and are now offering a $20,000 reward for information. The group’s co-founder Julian Assange suggested on Dutch television that if Rich is the source of the 20,000 emails exposing the party’s sabotage of the Bernie Sanders campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton, he may have been killed over it.
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Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap
A new batch of State Department emails includes requests to help a job seeker and a billionaire donor. By Eric Lichtblau.
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How to Hack an [American] Election in 7 Minutes
With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize—victory on Nov. 8—would be child’s play. By Ben Wofford.
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Researchers or Corporate Allies? Think Tanks Blur the Line
Think tanks are seen as independent, but their scholars often push donors’ agendas, amplifying a culture of corporate influence in Washington. By Eric Lipton and Brooke Williams.
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