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More Stupid Tax Code messing around

…10 percent of families at the highest. Overall, the distribution of total federal taxes became less progressive. Between 1977 and 1980, the total effective tax rate for all four taxes

Tariffs Bite into Tax Refunds

…and OBBBA made the tax system less progressive in 2025. The tax man giveth but the tariff man taketh away. Erica York Vice President of Federal Tax Policy Tax Foundation…

An Alternate Tax Reform Plan

…US: Replace the payroll tax with a progressive consumption tax, i.e. a tax only on the income that an individual does not save; Eliminate corporate income taxes, but tax capital…

The Windfall Profits Tax Debate

…associate pgl with either price controls or “the tax gouging spinmeisters,” which I probably did by combining commentary on the tax issue with commentary related to critics who accuse the…