tax reform

The Phony Claim that Lower Taxes Will Generate Higher Revenues Is Based on this Myth

by David L. O'Connor

It’s a myth that’s been driving GOP tax policy for a generation.

The G.O.P.’s Legislative Lemons

by Michael Tomasky

Like the tax bill, nearly all GOP legislation of the past 27 years has been unpopular. Why do they pass it?

We’ve Gotten Wrong What Russia Did to Us in 2016

by Joe Krulder

They used our own social media tools against us in a propaganda blitz so massive as to warrant us calling it Cold War 2.0.

Tax Reform Is Splitting the GOP. It’s Happened Before.

by Bill Scher

If Republicans think passing a tax bill will help their party, they should look to their own history.

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.

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.

Trump just promised the biggest tax cut in history

Here’s how big it would have to be.

Joseph E. Stiglitz: A Tax System Stacked Against the 99 Percent

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an economist and professor at Columbia University.LEONA HELMSLEY, the hotel chain executive who was convicted of federal tax evasion in 1989, was notorious for, among other things, reportedly having said that “only the little people pay taxes.”As a statement of principle, the quotation may well have earned Mrs. Helmsley, who died in 2007, the title Queen of Mean. But as a prediction about the fairness of American tax policy, Mrs. Helmsley’s remark might actually have been prescient.Today, the deadline for filing individual income-tax returns, is a day when Americans would do well to pause and reflect on our tax system and the society it creates. No one enjoys paying taxes, and yet all but the extreme libertarians agree, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, that taxes are the price we pay for civilized society. But in recent decades, the burden for paying that price has been distributed in increasingly unfair ways....