…a bit of background on tax cut rationales and deficits. Back in the old days of the Bush regime, the tax cutters tended to claim that tax cuts would create…

…The Times article asserts that the “main disagreement” between Dems and Republicans is merely the question of extending the Bush tax rates for the top 2 percent of taxpayers. That…

…cuts, growth rates should go up and unemployment rates should go down if tax rates go up. There are two reasons this is true. One is that taxes pay for…

…the lairs of tax loopholes for the rich. If Republicans won’t budge on raising tax rates but insist on broadening the base, Democrats should take aim at the biggest tax…

…agreement yesterday on a five-year, nearly $70 billion tax package that would extend President Bush’s deep cuts to tax rates on dividends and capital gains, while sparing about 15 million…

…favor the wealthy–lowering corporate tax rates to half their current level, eliminating corporate tax entirely for manufacturers, eliminating corporate tax on overseas profits that are used to buy manufacturing equipment…

…his mystical magic with the 2017 tax break. Layer of layer tax breaks. So which is it? Cut programs or increase taxes? Cut programs or increase taxes? I pick the…

…Voodoo the Elder Bush always said it was. Lowering top marginal rates and taxing capital gains at half the rates of capital income would under my model have the effect…

…tax rates are lower than those in the US. Certainly, part of it is massive budget deficits, and as the MMT people note, they were borrowing from abroad. I do…

…and Juliana Kaplan. it still tilts the scale towards wealthier retirees — and allows them to accumulate more money untouched by taxes. For people who are already financially stable, the…