Kansas Republicans abandon Brownback; raise taxes over his veto Remember Kansas’s great tax-cutting experiment under Governor Sam Brownback? (Me, sarcastic?) As always in Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore La-La Land,…

Record Income Taxes? I should read more posts from Kevin Drum: The Yahoo News reporter comes close to explaining what happened by noting that there were more returns in 2018…

…think anything which reduces trading is probably good. 3. Foundations. The really rich don’t just avoid capital gains taxes by holding assets till they die. They also avoid estate taxes…

…were no problem when they were cutting taxes on firms and rich individuals). We are going to read a lot of arguments about irresponsibly burdening our children with debt (which…

…I did, and it turns out that DJT says he wants to eliminate all federal income taxes on Social Security. Currently, if SS is your only income, there already are…

…because the rich will always be able to avoid paying any new taxes levied upon them. Secondly: If we could raise taxes on the rich, we shouldn’t — because the…

…TCJA imposed a $10,000 cap on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT). If this provision of the TCJA expires, all state and local property taxes and income taxes…

…one could avoid much of the income taxes. A question is, “what happens with those taxes collected from Social Security Recipients?” The short answer is the taxes are plowed right…

…a quasi-Georgist. In this nearly 20-year old post (!), I argue that property taxes (PT on land + improvements) should replace income taxes for several reasons. Most of them agree…

…America–“On Taxes, ‘Modeling’, and the Vision Thing”, Wall St. J. Dec. 23-24, 2011, at A13. In it, Romney reveals the way patrician wealth has affected his values, casting President Obama…