What’s That ‘Surtax’ Doing in Build Back Better?
Congress may soon be delivering America’s awesomely affluent an unpleasant tax-time surprise.
Sanders Estate Tax Bill Shuts Down Wealth Hiding Loopholes
The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate takes shot across the bow of the wealth defense industry.
Taxing the Rich Starts With Knowing Who They Are
Taxing the rich won’t be effective unless we deploy a variety of policy approaches. After all, the richest among us are often experts at dodging taxes.
How Progressives Can Fix the Progressive Income Tax
Taxes on the wealthy should be linked not just to the top of the income ladder, but also to the bottom.
What States Can Do to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Through Tax Policy
State governments have many options for recouping the windfalls large corporations and the wealthy received through the 2017 Republican federal tax law.
How the Age of Billionaires Ends
Serious proposals are on the table to address the deepening divide between the uber-rich and the rest of us.
Busload of Activist Nuns Log 5,600 Miles for Tax Justice
The renowned ‘Nuns on the Bus’ are heading to Mar-A-Lago, the final stop in a cross-country campaign to undo the damage of the Republican tax reform.
The Government Has Failed the Poor Time and Time Again. Now, They’re Failing the Middle Class,Too.
Since 1980, government programs have been failing America’s poor. The GOP tax legislation essentially re-engineers government to fail America’s middle class, too.
How to Stop a Tax Plan Rigged for the Rich
We can take a lesson from 1932.
The GOP Is Using ‘Tax Reform’ to Gut American Health Care
Tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent alone could fund coverage for 12 million Americans.
There Can Be No Genuine Tax Reform Without Addressing Hidden Wealth
The recently leaked Paradise Papers underscore the need to crack down on tax dodging instead of passing another giveaway for the wealthy.
We Worked on Tax Reform Under Reagan. Trump’s Is Much Worse.
Reagan actually raised taxes on corporations.
This Year’s Real Halloween Horror
The family that has made billions off trick-or-treat candy has gone generations without paying any appreciable tax on its enormous fortune.
If You Want to Collect Social Security, Trump’s Tax Plan Is an Outrage
You probably pay about four times more of your income to Social Security than millionaires, who want to cut their taxes and your benefits.
Trump’s ‘Tax Reform’ Is More Regressive Than Even Reagan’s
The last thing the country needs is a sham tax reform designed to reward Republican donors with more tax breaks.