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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

Corporate Geopolitics: When Billionaires Rival States

Tech giants are increasingly able to wield significant geopolitical influence. To ensure digital sovereignty, governments must insist on transparency and accountability.

Corporate Geopolitics: When Billionaires Rival States | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sick profits: about profit-driven health care

Healthcare giants are saving millions from tax cuts but still not improving care.

Sick Profits: How Profit-Driven Healthcare Is Bad for Our Financial and Physical Health – Inequality.org

Ten Ways you are being Burned by Billionaires

It affects your life, whether you realize it or not.

How extreme wealth is killing the planet

Donald Trump’s second inauguration made one thing unmistakably clear: billionaires wield incredible influence in this administration.

Onstage with Trump were Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Six billionaires have been appointed to cabinet level positions with seven more billionaires appointed to high level positions in the administration. It was a Billionaire Coup—one that’s undermining democracy and driving the planet toward ecological ruin.

Billionaire coup: How extreme wealth is killing the planet – The Understory – Rainforest Action Network

AI make the rich unfathomably richer

The ‘knowledge economy’ promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge it

AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want? | Dustin Guastella | The Guardian

The Wealth Gap and the Health Trap

How differences in wealth lead to public health problems

The wealth gap – and the health trap

Paul Krugman on the Rise of Mega-Fortunes

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

Oligarchs and the Rise of Mega-Fortunes. Paul Krugman, Understanding Inequality: Part IV – Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality

They are rich, they are anti-Trump and they don’t want their big tax cut!

Affluent voters have become more Democratic in recent years — and are also some of the biggest winners in the GOP tax bill.

Rich liberals do not want their big Trump tax cut – The Washington Post

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