taxes

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• 12/1/2019
  

  A Wealth Tax? Two Framers Weigh In

  by Ray Raphael

  Wealth taxes are on the current political table and hotly debated. All taxation was on the framers’ table as they considered a new constitution. What would they make of the measures we are considering now?

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  5/7/19
  

  A century-old feud between millionaires is now key to getting Trump’s tax returns

  The law at issue in the strife over Trump’s taxes arose from a bitter dispute between Mellon and Sen. James Couzens (R-Mich.), a deep-pocketed adversary on Capitol Hill, over the lawmaker’s investigation of the IRS.

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• SOURCE: Epoch Times
  4/29/19
  

  Medieval Historian: Low Taxes Work

  Ronald Reagan was a fan of Ibn Khaldun.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  4/20/19
  

  Trump’s Taxes Are Fair Game. Just Ask Warren Harding.

  by Stephen Mihm

  The Teapot Dome corruption scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

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• 7/29/18
  

  Let’s Tax the Rich

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The public thinks they’re taxed too little and history shows the economy benefits when taxes are higher.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  6-26-18
  

  U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch

  Congress’ recent tax and spending laws — along with ballooning costs of government programs have jacked up federal spending in President Donald Trump’s first term.

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• 3/25/18
  

  Don't Like Paying Taxes? It's an American Tradition.

  by Suzy Evans

  In the 1790s even George Washington faced a tax rebellion.  He put it down personally at the head of an army.

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• SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
  4-18-17
  

  How Tax Policy Created the 1%

  by Julia Ott

  The Revenue Act of 1921 introduced a preferential or reduced tax rate on income from capital gains into the U.S. tax code, in a reversal of how policymakers had thought about different forms of income for several decades.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-29-17
  

  When Congress Made Taxes Fairer

  by Bill Bradley

  With President Trump now talking about overhauling the tax code, it’s worth reflecting on the last time Congress revamped the system: the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-25-17
  

  Trump just promised the biggest tax cut in history

  Here’s how big it would have to be.

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• SOURCE: Esquire
  4-14-17
  

  All the Presidents' Taxes

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  As you file your taxes this week—and as the president talks up tax reform—get riled up all over again about his refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential tradition.

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• 11-6-16
  

  Trump’s Not the Only Rich Guy Who Got Out of Paying Taxes

  by Evan Faulkenbury

  So did John D. Rockefeller III.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8-8-16
  

  Is the U.S. Due for Radically Raising Taxes for the Rich?

  by Alana Semuels

  That’s what has usually happened whenever a large proportion of Americans have been upset with the distribution of their country’s wealth.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5-10-16
  

  Are we ready to raise taxes on the rich?

  by Kenneth Scheme and David Stasavage

  History says no.

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• SOURCE: Greek Reporter
  2-25-15
  

  German Historian: Rich Greeks Evade Taxes Since 1830

  Heinz Richter says “The political culture in Greece differs from the rest of Western Europe because it is based on clientelism."

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• 4-10-14
  

  Americans Turned Against Taxes Because Taxes Were Unfair (Interview)

  by Joshua Mound

  How Woody Allen helped ignite the revolt against taxes. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-4-14
  

  How L.B.J. Pushed Through Kennedy’s Tax Cut

  by Bruce Bartlett

  It wasn't just the Civil Rights Act LBJ pushed through in the aftermath of Kennedy's 1963 assassination.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11-26-13
  

  The History of the 501(c)(4) Exemption

  The roots go back to 1913.

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• SOURCE: Tax Analysis
  11-4-13
  

  The Most Successful Tax Reform in History

  by Bruce Bartlett

  Japan's post-World War II tax reform ensured a booming economy for decades.

• SOURCE: Reuters
  6-3-13
  

  German tax inspectors oblivious to Holocaust

  BERLIN (Reuters) - Many low-level tax inspectors in Germany's Nazi-era finance ministry were oblivious to the Holocaust and dutifully tried to contact murdered Jews whose wealth was being plundered by the ministry's top officials, according to a new book.Germans have publicly atoned for Nazi crimes in a myriad of ways over six decades, providing scores of billions of dollars in reparations to Holocaust victims, their descendants and the state of Israel. But only recently have leading government ministries come clean on their own particular Nazi past....The finance ministry's role in assisting the Nazis was long assumed as a fact but never examined in real detail until Berlin historian Christine Kuller's book "Bureaucracy and Crime", which it commissioned....