Corporate Reform
Member of the Corporate Reform Coalition
The Campaign for Corporate Reform
Some irresponsible players in the financial sector, and their enablers in law and government, have played a large role in financial crises from the Great Depression to the Great Recession through today. Reckless profit-seeking by Wall Street, coupled with lax governmental regulatory oversight and excessive greed, has forced destructive consequences on the rest of the country.
In the wake of mega-bailouts, taxpayers are right to demand effective consumer protection to prevent flagrant recurrences. Congress and the President must create and enforce strong financial regulatory controls to help prevent future disasters and protect taxpayers.
Three areas of initiatives are here for your consideration, click on the buttons for much more information in each initiative:
- Multiple Corporate Reforms, including cracking down on corporate crime, ideas to curb corporate greed, CEO compensation, suggested regulations to reign in corporate power
- Consumer Protection, including the strengthening of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a proscription to create an Independent Financial Consumers Association, and
- A Security Speculation Tax
The Pay Gap Between CEOs and Workers
It is no secret that the executives of publicly traded companies are paid at rates that greatly exceed those of…
Security Speculation Tax
We urge the implementation of a Securities-Speculation Tax, a small tax on all financial transactions that would restrain financial gambling…
Stop CEO Greed
CEO Greed
End Corporate War Profiteering
Citizen Works – War Contracts (A Discussion of War Contracts in 2003)
Corporate Tax Traitors
Citizen Works – Corporate Tax Dodgers (A Discussion of Corporate Tax Dodgers in 2003)
Fight Back Against Media Deregulation!
Citizen Works – Media Consolidation (A Discussion of Preserving Diversity of News and Opinion in 2003)