Bob Lord

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...

If redistribution is so terrible, why do our policy wonks pay so little attention to redistribution from poor to rich?

Billionaire Bill Gates believes the charitable giving of the rich will alleviate inequality. Is he correct?