Nailed the Vetting Lies

I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim.

—. Cynthia Ozick,  born in 1928

IRS chief says some $1T in taxes going uncollected annually

SHINE A LIGHT: What the Rolling Stones can teach us about today’s tax debate. “We’re about to embark on another national experiment to see how Americans react to tax increases. While some say that economic conditions have changed to the point where ‘it is different this time’ (cautionary words to any student of history) – we’re likely to find that human nature is a stubborn thing.”

• Taxcast Extra, The Whiteness of Wealth: conversation between Professor Dorothy Brown and political economist Keval Bharadia, April 2021 (12 Apr 2021)
  
•  “Nailed the lie”: Tax Justice Network responds to G20 commitment to global minimum corporate tax rate (8 Apr 2021)
  
• US Treasury Secretary Yellen confirms: It’s time to end the race to the bottom on corporate tax (8 Apr 2021)
  
• How would a global minimum tax work and why is it needed? (9 Apr 2021)
• Global Minimum Tax: The Made in America Tax Plan (8 Apr 2021)
• Biden’s tax plan is about tackling the class warfare of the US elite (8 Apr 2021)
  
• G20 takes step towards global minimum corporate tax rate (7 Apr 2021)
• Tax wealth to help shrink inequality caused by Covid says IMF (7 Apr 2021)
• Why Ireland will be among those most wary of America's push for global corporation tax rate (7 Apr 2021)
• Amazon boss (and world's richest man) Bezos backs tax hike after Biden criticism (7 Apr 2021)
• Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs tax rise on companies (6 Apr 2021)
  
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• Big Oil’s Secret World of Trading  (2 Apr 2021)
• US fossil-fuel companies took billions in tax breaks – and then laid off thousands (2 Apr 2021)
  
• An Accidental Disclosure Exposes a $1 Billion Tax Fight With Bristol Myers (1 Apr 2021)
• IMF and Taxation: Giving Everyone a Fair Shot (1 Apr 2021)
• IMF calls for tax hikes on wealthy to reduce income gap (1 Apr 2021)

 

Amazon workers react to the defeat of the RWDSU at Alabama warehouse WSWS

How Amazon Crushed The Union Threat In Alabama HuffPost

 

Tank vs. Toyota

In 1987 the army of Chad won a war against a more powerful Libyan force. The Libyans had tanks and aircraft; Chad had a fleet of Toyota pickup trucks

 

Krystal Ball: The Next Housing CRISIS Is Here And The Villains Are Exactly Who You’d ExpectYouTube From last week, still germane

 

Republican ‘attacks’ on corporations over voting rights bills are a hypocritical sham Guardian 

 

Elite philanthropy mainly self-serving Academic Times 

 Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 17, 2021 – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Six key takeaways from Biden’s Russia sanctions announcement; Bill Would Prohibit Sale of Americans’ Personal Data to Adversarial Countries; Better than the best password: How to use 2 Factor Authentication to improve your security; and Cybercriminals Put Out Facebook Ads for a Fake Clubhouse App That Was Riddled with Malware.