…tax code significantly more regressive.24 In 2013, a significant majority of the Bush tax cuts were made permanent with bipartisan support, locking in lower tax rates and deep cuts to the…

…not support nonrenewal of the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans? Why not support continued tightening of the corporate tax code, including restrictions on tax-free reorganizations that permit US multinationals…

…nation’s wealthiest people. Moreover, even when wealthy households do pay tax, they benefit from special low tax rates on capital income and other tax breaks that reduce their taxes. As…

…the [estate] tax” would be twice as much as the revenue gained from the current estate tax; the economic growth from eliminating the estate tax would “create thousands of new…

…estates. It is also true of income taxes in general, the way flat taxes would work, the rationales for the corporate tax and many other key tax policies. Lobbyists frame…

…sold at major retailers today, such as legendary Half of Fame MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan’s private label beef that is carried exclusively at Kroger stores, or at his private label…

…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 2017 Trump-GOP tax law. Based on what we know about Trump’s income from past tax returns that have been made public, if just one of those expiring provisions–lower individual tax rates–were instead…

…afterthought.” Yet revenue-raising is THE PRIMARY REASON WE HAVE TAXES. Congress should not be engaging in protracted tax reform negotiations that ignore the fundamental problem with our tax code: It…

…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…