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The long struggle over taxing the rich


The long struggle over taxing the rich - Center for Public Integrity

The tax system in her state has long been one of the most inequitable in the country, leaning most heavily on the people with the least money.

The long struggle over taxing the rich - HI Tax Fairness

The State Innovation Exchange and State Revenue Alliance, two national groups now helping to coordinate state wealth-tax efforts, ...

Historical Tax Rates: The Rhetoric and Reality of Taxing the Rich

Addressing our nation's long-term fiscal challenge will require additional revenue, including higher taxes on the rich.

The long struggle over taxing the rich - Tucson Sentinel

The capital gains tax will increase annual state and local taxes for the wealthiest earners by half a percentage point on average, while the ...

The Limits of Taxing the Rich | Manhattan Institute

This report models an aggressive tax-the-rich agenda that pushes tax rates for corporations and wealthy families toward revenue-maximizing levels.

Tax the Rich? We Did That Once - Inequality.org

Back at the tail-end of that era, in the early 1960s, America's richest faced a 91 percent tax rate on income in the top tax bracket. That top ...

The Struggle to Tax the Rich Isn't Done Yet—In Some States It's ...

In Massachusetts, a constitutional amendment to increase taxes on the wealthy took a decade of advocacy work. Supporters gathered signatures to ...

The Wealth Tax Is A Poor Idea - Hoover Institution

Necessarily, that type of tax will miss the portion of their wealth that they hold in unlisted and illiquid assets, and thus will not satisfy ...

The High Cost of Wealth Taxes - Tax Foundation

Even a small increase in the wealth tax rate can lead to capital flight and wealthy individuals relocating to neighboring jurisdictions. For ...

Tax the rich: 9 Reasons for a wealth tax - Fight Inequality Alliance

Even as the wealth of the richest has grown by leaps and bounds, their tax rates have also collapsed. On the other hand, the tax rates of the low-income working ...

Taxing the Rich Could Raise Trillions — But That Alone Won't Fix ...

As income and wealth inequality has grown, many policymakers and experts have called for higher taxes on wealthy Americans. Often, there are ...

Tax Cuts for the Rich Create Debt, Division, and Despair — Not Jobs

Supporters of tax cuts for the wealthy have long claimed that they lead to economic growth. The evidence is in: They don't. High-end tax ...

Taxing the rich (more) | Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Demands to tax the rich (more) rest on the perception of rising inequality. In many countries, the share of top 1 per cent in total income and ...

How four decades of tax cuts fueled inequality

In the past four decades, Congress after Congress has cut taxes on the richest people and corporations — billions of dollars that would ...

The 2017 Trump Tax Law Was Skewed to the Rich, Expensive, and ...

Was skewed to the rich. Households with incomes in the top 1 percent will receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025, compared to ...

Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight ...

The report explores how, in recent history, taxation of the richest was far higher; how talk of taxing the rich and making billionaires pay their fair share is ...

Taxing the rich: The effect of tax reform and the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Elite taxation can change the distribution of income in society, support equitable growth, and finance public goods and services that improve ...

Survival of the Richest: How we must tax the super-rich now to fight ...

It's time we demolish the convenient myth that tax cuts for the richest result in their wealth somehow 'trickling down' to everyone else. Forty ...

'Wealth taxes will cause the rich to flee': 12 wealth tax myths debunked

High taxes on corporations and the wealthy existed side by side with record-high levels of job creation and increases in standards of living ...

5 Little-Known Facts About Taxes and Inequality in America

Fact 1: Poor and working-class Americans pay higher payroll tax rates than the rich · Fact 2: Tax-preferred long-term capital gains and qualified ...