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stock buybacks
August 26, 2023
Jason Linkins
The CEOs Who Are Robbing You Blind
Corporate executives are using taxpayer dollars and the proceeds of worker labor to keep the pay gap grotesquely wide.
February 8, 2023
Timothy Noah
Republicans Would Be Fools Not to Get Behind Biden’s 4 Percent Tax on Stock Buybacks
Buybacks divert capital from job creation and load up corporations with debt—an orgy of self-dealing by corporate chiefs that the GOP hasn’t lifted a finger to stop.
August 10, 2022
Timothy Noah
The IRA’s Long Overdue New Tax That the Press Hasn’t Noticed
The Democrats’ new tax-and-spending bill will punish stock buybacks. Not enough. But it’s a start.
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