by Dave Johnson | Jun 30, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
Watch out for this one. With fast track trade authority done, the big corporations are now pushing for massive tax giveaways. This is another exercise of raw corporate power by the few to take what they want from the many. The corporations use complexity to get people...
by Dave Johnson | Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
A new report released Wednesday that Walmart is dodging taxes by stashing $76 billion of profits outside of the country using 78 subsidiaries in 15 tax havens raises a question: Why is Congress and the White House considering policies that reward tax dodgers like...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2015 | Tax Reform
Walmart got a modest lift to its reputation when it announced that it was lifting wages for many of its 1 million-plus employees. But a report released today by Americans for Tax Fairness reminds us that Walmart is still a tax cheater, robbing the public of revenue...
by Emily Foster | May 19, 2015 | Education, Tax Reform
In Norway, students go to college tuition-free. In Denmark, students are even paid to go to higher education. In the U.S., college students currently face more than $1.2 trillion of education debt. If the United States wants to boost its middle class and rebuild its...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 5, 2015 | Economy, Tax Reform
"The effects of state tax policy on economic growth, entrepreneurship, and employment remain controversial," begins the abstract of a study of state tax policy just released by the Brookings/Urban Institute Tax Policy Center. But that's only in the same sense that the...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Tax Reform
Republicans depend on people believing what they say but not paying attention to the things they do. Just how certain are they that no one pays attention to the things they do? Read on. Today is Tax Day, and Republicans are voting to repeal the estate tax. This is a...
