Do High Taxes on Our Rich Make Any Sense?
Serious tax rates, apologists for our wealthy claim, can’t work. The stats suggest otherwise.
Taxes
Progressive Dreams for Public Transit
Car-centric infrastructure drives inequality. As voters and advocates, we have the power to shape transit’s future for the better.
Free Tax Filing: A Crucial Step Toward Unrigging Our Economy
Profit-driven tax preparation corporations like TurboTax are trying to undercut a new tool for filing taxes online that the IRS is launching in 12 states this spring.
The Penalty for Exposing How Our Plutocracy Operates? Five Years Behind Bars
Tax consultant Charles Littlejohn faces prison while our richest continue to feel precious little tax-time pain.
The Child Tax Credit Changed My Life. Lawmakers Have a Chance to Bring It Back.
Poverty is a policy choice by lawmakers with warped priorities. Now they have a chance to choose better, if only modestly.
Revealing the True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy
How the ultra-wealthy use charitable giving to avoid taxes and exert influence — while ordinary taxpayers foot the bill.
Patriotic Millionaires to High Court: Don’t Preempt Taxing Grand Fortune
A wrong decision in the Moore case could set back tax justice for years.
Share the Wealth vs. Waste the Wealth
So far the wasters seem to be winning. But some change may be coming.
Heir Pollution
By flying in private jets, America's wealthiest engage in an indefensible form of waste on a warming planet: Heir pollution.