Corporate Accountability

It’s Time for Corporate Accountability

For too long, major corporations have exploited the hard work of the American middle class while padding the pockets of their CEOs and shareholders. Workers are putting in longer hours, earning stagnant wages, and being denied basic benefits—all while corporate executives rake in record profits.

It’s time to level the playing field.

Corporate profits have soared not because of innovation or reinvestment—but because companies have found ways to extract more from workers while giving less in return. The system has been rigged in favor of those at the top. Here's how we begin to fix it:

• Protect Workers, Defend Unions

  • Levy steep fines on corporations that engage in union-busting—whether through intimidation, retaliation, or hiring anti-union consultants.

  • Companies like Amazon and Walmart have perfected these tactics. It’s time they face real consequences for undermining the rights of their workers.

• Stop Subsidizing Corporate Greed

  • Ban corporations from receiving government subsidies if they have full-time employees who rely on public assistance programs like SNAP or Medicaid.

  • If taxpayers are helping your workers survive, you shouldn't be taking a dime from those same taxpayers in subsidies.

• Fix the Broken Tax Code

  • Close corporate tax loopholes, raising an estimated $50 billion over the next decade.

  • End the carried interest loophole, a handout to Wall Street that could bring in $18 billion annually.

  • Rewrite the tax code so that corporations can’t deduct luxury items like private jets or yachts while teachers are capped at a $300 deduction for classroom supplies.

• Rein in Executive Excess

  • Cap CEO pay relative to worker compensation. No executive should earn 300–500 times more than the people who make their company run.

  • Ban stock buybacks for two years after a company conducts layoffs. If a company has billions for shareholders, it has enough to pay its workers.

  • Break up monopolies like Ticketmaster/Live Nation that crush competition and exploit both workers and consumers.

• Increase Transparency and Fairness

  • Require salary transparency on all job postings. If workers are expected to compete for jobs, companies should be honest about what those jobs pay. Pay secrecy only benefits employers—and it fuels inequality.

This isn’t anti-business. It’s pro-worker.

Fair wages, dignity on the job, and accountability for corporate abuse are not radical ideas—they’re basic expectations in a just economy. For too long, the system has asked working families to sacrifice while billionaires and boardrooms cash in. That must end.

We need an economy that rewards hard work—not exploitation. And that starts with holding corporations accountable.