We Really Need to Tax the Rich

After a series of tax reform victories in California, grassroots organizations and movements are moving forward and attempting to do the unthinkable: challenge Prop 13. Coined the Schools and Communities First initiative, they’re mobilizing a wide coalition of community members to make sure corporations and the wealthy finally pay their fair share of taxes.

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In California, they’re making it happen.

By Jane McAlevey, The Nation | 6/2/2021

Every big idea cherished by progressives—including the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, universal child care, and tuition-free college—requires massive government spending and a robust regulatory structure. None of these urgent proposals will come to fruition without the ability to reverse four decades of withering austerity by raising taxes on corporations and the superrich. Read More