Bob Lord

  It sounds crazy, but a major distraction in our debate about inequality in America today is inequality itself. I’m referring here to the concept of inequality in the abstract....

We have taxes on the labor we do and another set of taxes on wealth. Two years ago, my colleague Sam Pizzigati and I penned an op-ed, A Tax System...

Congress is gutting vital programs for the poor while heaping billions of dollars of relief on a few wealthy families.

The right’s favorite rationale for lowering the taxes rich people pay can make sense, but only if you believe that fairness demands taxing the first dollar of a person’s income...