…money, and money requires either printing more of it or more taxes. More taxes from the wealthiest corporations and individuals also serves a secondary objective of increasing expanding opportunity and…

…is estimated that corporate taxes will have raised only 242 billion, compared to 1.1 trillion in individual taxes and 845 billion in payroll taxes. When you couple the very low…

…from payroll taxes,” completely ignoring the revenue from previous payroll taxes that were saved exactly in anticipation of the higher costs that Social Security is facing today. It’s as if…

Socialism has always appealed to the young, the cure for which isn’t age but responsibility. This usually comes in the form of taxes and children, both of which involve working…

…since the Reagan tax cuts. The two successful candidates, her husband and her 2008 rival, both promised to increase taxes on high income *and* cut taxes on the middle class….

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…