We are offshoring jobs faster than we can create them. We keep stimulating or bailing the economy boat as fast as we can but ignore the offshore hole in the bottom.
Posted 05.17.2012
Rush Limbaugh accused Bill Clinton of "undercutting" President Obama for comments he recently made about taxing the wealthy to fix the economy. Cl...
Eric Schoenberg | Posted 05.15.2012
A comparison of the president's tax return with my own shows that growing wealth gaps are also occurring within the top 1 percent, and that our supposedly progressive tax system is making the problem worse.
Hayden Bixby | Posted 05.14.2012
Even more tellingly, the people ahead of me in line had worked a graveyard shift in order to pay the $200 it cost them to attend. And they hadn't slept, because they drove up to Seattle from Tacoma right after work to get in line.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.10.2012
I'm running against President Obama as a candidate for the nomination of the Americans Elect platform. But I have deep respect for him as a person an...
Christopher Bergin | Posted 05.01.2012
We are currently having a debate in this country about fairness and our tax systems. That's a good debate to have. But insinuating that someone who pays a lower effective tax rate than you is somehow doing something unfair to you does not help the debate.
Posted 04.30.2012
Bloomberg View: Erskine Bowles, a true Southern gentleman and co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s erstwhile budget-deficit commission, came...
CNNMoney | Jeanne Sahadi | Posted 04.26.2012
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- It's a provocative fact about the tax code: Nearly half of U.S. households end up owing no federal income tax. But it's not ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.18.2012
Imagine: after filling out your tax form, you then filled in a separate form. Say you paid $5,000 in income taxes last year. You'd then allocate that money as you saw fit, dollar by dollar, among the budget line items you chose.
Mark J. Perry and Robert Dell | Posted 04.18.2012
The current tax code destroys wealth and diminishes wealth creation excessively, but it does not effectively tax wealth (in the sense of raising revenue). The FairTax would tax spending from wealth in addition to fostering more wealth creation.
Robert Slayton | Posted 04.18.2012
Tax reform is a wonderful subject; after all, it is the great American fantasy. The problem appears the instant you discuss specifics. Any specific tax exemption, in fact.
Chuck Marr | Posted 04.18.2012
We've collected our top ten charts related to federal taxes. Together, they provide useful context for the coming debates about how to reduce soaring budget deficits and reform the tax code.
Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 04.16.2012
For the 99 percent of Americans who don't use lobbyists to bend the tax rules, Tax Day is a day for reflecting on why we pay taxes.
The Huffington Post | Mollie Reilly | Posted 04.16.2012
In a closed-door speech to donors at a private home in Florida on Sunday, Mitt Romney was unusually candid about his policy plans, offering details ab...
Reuters | Posted 04.16.2012
WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - A proposal to impose at least 30 percent income tax on Americans making more than a million dollars a year will not...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 04.14.2012
President Barack Obama didn't benefit last year from the huge break in the tax code that allows his presumptive rival, Mitt Romney, to pay taxes at a ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.12.2012
Obama should take his own advice and publicly rename the idea the "Reagan Rule" -- and then run a television ad explaining why to the country.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.12.2012
From immigration to health care and education reform, the Republicans are arguing for restricting access not only to the poor, but chiefly to the middle class. At the same time, they are arguing for a greater concentration of wealth among the elites.
Robert McIntyre | Posted 04.11.2012
You might have heard how the U.S. has just become "number one" in corporate taxation. But it's the highest on paper only. In practice, the true U.S. corporate tax rate is barely half of the 35 percent nominal rate.
David Miller | Posted 04.10.2012
Surprisingly, the president and his Republican counterparts are all in the same room and often on the very same page on the fundamental elements of tax reform.
Robert Creamer | Posted 04.10.2012
We must mobilize Americans to reject economic inequality -- to vote for a society where we all stand together, where we have each other's backs -- and where we return the goal of reducing inequality to center stage where it belongs.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.09.2012
Budget rhetoric in Washington is askew. Instead of discussing taxes we ought to be discussing the merit of programs and how to pay for them. But programs are never debated.
Danny Schechter | Posted 04.05.2012
Today, especially thanks to Occupy Wall Street, we know how economic inequality had grown while the people with the most money in society work the hardest to not pay their fair share. They have been resisting for years, "legally," they claim.
The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012
It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...
Fred Rotondaro | Posted 05.29.2012
How does the private citizen, the individual voter, compete with the forces that are subverting democracy? The simple answer is not very well indeed.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.30.2012