Balancing the Scales: Why We Should Tax Away Runaway CEO Pay
Friday, 22 November 2019
Ambitious tax reform is top of many minds this primary season. A wealth tax has emerged as one of the defining issues of the campaign, and many of the bold public programs envisioned by progressives rely on new or higher taxes on the wealthy and corporations. One tax idea that is gaining more attention is
- Published in Blog, Economic Inclusion
Roosevelt Rundown: What’s Preventing Climate Action
Friday, 08 November 2019
Reclaiming public power can combat a neoliberal crisis. The Roosevelt Rundown is an email series featuring the Roosevelt Institute’s top stories of the week. How Neoliberalism Drives the Climate Crisis “Our best chance at tackling the climate crisis may well be to transcend neoliberalism,” Roosevelt Fellow Mark Paul and Colorado State University’s Anders Fremstad write
- Published in Roosevelt Rundown
Don’t Fear the Deficit: Why We Can Afford a Green New Deal
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
In “Don’t Fear the Deficit,” Roosevelt Fellow JW Mason and Senior Associate and Research Assistant Kristina Karlsson argue that every candidate’s plan to combat the climate crisis—as of October 2019—is affordable and can be paid for without imposing broad-based taxes on working and middle-class Americans. In fact, due to persistently low interest rates, all of
- Published in Brief, Publications
Good Progressive Policies Make Good Coalition Politics
Tuesday, 30 July 2019
In advance of tonight’s debate, a few prominent commentators and political figures—most recently former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel—have taken the current presidential field to task. These critics argue that candidates are taking policy positions that are too far outside the mainstream for any general election standard bearer. But the critics are simply wrong. Many different