Taxation

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...

With all the NFL scandals from this past season, the one that has received the least attention is the easiest to solve: the league’s tax-exempt status.

To clamp down on Wall Street recklessness, we need to be taxing both excessively leveraged financial institutions and short-term speculating. Why does the White House see the two taxes as...

Billions of taxpayer dollars are now going — as ‘incentives’ — to corporations busy stuffing the pockets of America’s richest billionaires. By Philip Mattera [caption id="attachment_7593" align="alignright" width="300"] Intel alone,...