The article concludes that environmental regulation is necessary and while it may impose costs on an individual business, well-designed and implemented regulation can both protect environments and create a business advantage for progressive corporations.
Future 500, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that forges alliances between conservatives, progressives, corporations, and activists, is an informal clearinghouse that helps these erstwhile adversaries find one another, and meet on common ground.
Professor Katz of Harvard said it would make sense to create a more progressive tax system when corporations and the top 1 percent are commanding more of the economic pie.
Revenues of the 10th largest corporation in Ohio, Progressive Insurance, 2008: $12.8 billion.
After Wall Street financiers ran amok to cause the Great Depression in the 1930s, the government responded by putting in place regulations on banks and corporations, a highly progressive tax system, and a robust social safety net.
"Unfortunately, many educational institutions are more risk-averse than corporations; they're progressive in terms ideas but conservative in terms of their ability to change business as usual and consider the long-term investment," said Wynn Calder, co-director of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future.
In 2008 Albania adopted a flat tax for both individuals and corporations, which replaced its progressive tax system.
A progressive scholar who believes that large corporations endanger democracy begins to make inexplicable exceptions for Microsoft or Google.
It is not Meredith Corporation's job to be progressive.
If progressive social policies are becoming common among corporations and nonprofits, in other words, capitalism is responsible.
An acceptable schedule of progressive rates could hardly be devised for corporations, because they differ greatly in scale of operations and numbers of shareholders.
