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How Nonprofits and Activists Can Oppose Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

NonProfit Quarterly

According to Gresser, “Overall, the effect of the bill, especially in combination with the tariffs, is to shift taxation from wealthy people to hourly wage families, and likewise from businesses that use a lot of goods—[such as] manufacturers, retailers, construction companies, and farmers—to businesses that don’t use a lot of goods, such as financial (..)

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Why Economic Development Subsidies Are Racist—and What to Do About Them

NonProfit Quarterly

The net effect has been a huge tax-cut windfall for large manufacturing companies—with no strings attached and no disclosure of costs or benefits. This is a change from how states have traditionally required multi-state companies to divvy up or “apportion” their taxable income by state.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500. A sign of increasing labor power, these rising union numbers felt just as scary to the real-life business tycoons as the dialogue in the movie Citizen Kane suggests.

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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing. Comprising consultants, attorneys, accountants, wealth managers, and others, this wealth defense industry employs various tools to hide wealth and avoid taxation.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Production Purpose: End our dependence on monopoly manufacturers, energy producers, big tech, and Big Pharma, and autonomously manufacture the appropriate technological instruments required to meet our basic material and social needs within the ecological capacities of our communities and environments.

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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

Research/development, manufacturing, workforce. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. Basics (water, broadband, electric grid, resiliency). Transportation (airports, electric cars, rail, roads, transit). Long-term care. percent increase from the $4.9

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results.