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The Case for Blaming Billionaires

   

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“I can’t help but roll my eyes when people bash the rich as a class, blaming them for nearly everything that’s wrong in U.S. society,” IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan recently wrote in a column, “What ‘Blame the Billionaires’ Misses.” He points to Texas Democrat James Talarico, who recently said that the “only minority destroying this country is the billionaires.”

Chuck Collins on the case for blaming billionaires | Inside Philanthropy

Where are the profits of the war going?

With the rise in oil prices, the profits of extractive companies surge—and a significant share ends up funneled through tax havens. But it’s not too late to tax war profiteers effectively.

Where are the profits of the war going ?

Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025

Global real worker pay fell 12 percent while real CEO pay surged 54 percent between 2019 and 2025.

May Day 2026: Top CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers’ pay in 2025 – International Trade Union Confederation

Trillions hidden, Humanity starving

Ten years after the world first glimpsed the Panama Papers, the shadow empire of the super-rich is no less formidable. New analysis from Oxfam reveals a staggering truth: the untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent now exceeds the combined wealth of the poorest 4.1 billion people on Earth. That’s not a statistic—it’s a moral indictment.

Trillions Hidden, Humanity Starving: The Super-Rich vs. the Rest of Us

Millionaires leave the US

Hundreds of millionaires are trying to escape the US

buying golden visa …

Billionaire boys fight the wealth Tax

Across America, billionaires and their minions are working to defeat a proposed ballot measure in California that would marginally tax the assets of the ultra-rich. The initiative would use the proceeds to ensure that millions of low-income residents can remain on the state’s Medicaid program.

The billionaire boys fight the wealth tax – by Caleb Ecarma

Politicians’ surrender to the super-wealthy

By George Monbiot – at the corer of all our problems!

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot | The Guardian

America’s wealthiests are getting richer and richer …

Look at the graphs!

America’s Wealthiest Are Getting Even Richer – Inequality.org

Do Millionaire Surtaxes Lead to Millionaire Exodus?

No, they don’t

Do Millionaire Surtaxes Lead to Millionaire Exodus? – People’s Policy Project

Let them eat Ozempic!

America gets its first trillionaire as people starve, while Trump hawks meds to suppress appetite. And as affordability becomes the new bipartisan goal, does that secretly play into oligarchs’ hands?

ESSAY: Let them eat Ozempic – by Anand Giridharadas

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