Four easy fixes for corporate taxation
…While some economists believe we shouldn’t tax corporations at all, the corporate income tax (CIT) is a necessary backstop to the personal income tax (PIT). With no CIT or a…
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Senators promised 50 years of secrecy on their tax reform proposals
…avoidance techniques of wealthy, sophisticated taxpayers (including multinational corporations) and (2) to provide special tax subsidies through tax expenditures, again mostly for the wealthy (think capital gains preference) and industries…
Extending Trumps 2017 Tax Cuts
…ensuring higher-income people taking large deductions and other tax breaks pay a minimum tax. Doubling the estate tax exemption. Doubles the amount the wealthiest households can pass on tax-free to…
Optimal Tax Rates for Generating Economic Growth According to Barro-Sahasakul Tax Data
…referenced above. Their overall marginal rate is made up of not just federal tax rates, but also social security tax rates, and even estimates of the state tax rates. It…
Beale debates Cato’s Edwards on the right’s "flat tax"–New Hampshire Public Radio
…about the right’s various “flat tax” (FairTax, 9-9-9, USA Tax, consumption tax) proposals, on New Hampshire’s public radio station’s hour long program “The Exchange”, hosted by Laura Knoy. You can…
Declining Progressivity in US Taxes
…capital gains combined with a repeal in the estate tax would certainly reduce the current progressivity of federal taxes and favor large wealth holders. The Alternative Mininum Tax, which is…
The Clinton Campaign Continues to Help Trump Ensure That Policy Won’t Matter in This Election
…read. Literally, according to Mitch McConnell. Not sure why so many Democrats, including Clinton and her campaign, think this is trivial–not worth talking about when you can talk instead, constantly,…
Brownshirts
The Clinton campaign has been strangely remiss in not publicizing the Trump campaign’s aggressive screening of journalists at Trump’s events—especially its denial of press credentials to several news media organizations,…
Excuse me. But … seriously?
…a campaign based mostly on Trump’s insults and temperament and sexual assault admission, because she couldn’t credibly campaign on much of anything else—least of all on the Democratic Party platform—because…
Apparently there’s a special place in hell for Democratic politicians who criticize Barack Obama as insufficiently progressive. And a special place in heaven for politicians who have accepted $133,246 from the private-prisons industry but tell Black and Hispanic voters at a debate shortly before the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary that they want to end the private-prison system.
…private prisons. Good idea! Especially since it probably played well with African-American and Hispanic viewers last night, given that Sanders—who has campaigned on ending private prisons—(inexplicably) didn’t mention her campaign-finance…