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The Washington Post has, over the past few months, run at least five editorials or opinion pieces railing against federal or state tax increases....
America is barreling towards authoritarianism at such a breakneck pace that it should alarm every single one of us. But instead of meeting this moment...
I wrote my first post for Inequality.org, Our First Trillionaire: Only a Matter of Time, over twelve years ago. I hoped, at the time, that the post...
“If poor people knew how rich rich people are,” Chris Rock once quipped, “there would be riots in the streets.” So, I wonder, what would...
The recent wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez in Venice set off quite the furor over tax avoidance. An enormous banner in the Piazza San Marco...
Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich? Absolutely, when you tally it up. Yet the...
The top tax rate wealthy Americans pay on their investment gains today runs barely half the top rate the rest of us pay on our wages. But that only...
What is the mission of the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation? Even a quick review of the Tax Foundation’s output makes it perfectly plain: to...
An income tax rate of over 100 percent would be hard for anyone to sustain. At a rate a smidge over 100 percent, our deepest pockets might be able to...
The bill would end two of the ultra rich’s favorite tax-avoidance strategies: “Buy-Borrow-Die” and “Buy-Hold for Decades-Sell.”