Win-Win Democracy | Lee R. Nackman | Substack

Taxes

This issue asks for reader feedback and suggestions, and responds to some interesting comments made about the last issue.

Oct 15, 2022

Starting from a simple flat-rate tax system, we discuss how to create subsidies that help people who need help, not high-earners who don't need help.

Oct 1, 2022

Our current tax system is complicated and opaque, the better to hide many gifts to high earners. Radical simplification would be a first step to a tax…

Sep 17, 2022

Why So Many People are Angry About the Economy

Jul 16, 2022

Capital gains get preferential tax treatment. A look-back approach can be used to tax capital gains as ordinary income, eliminating the tax system's…

Jul 2, 2022

Proposals to change the tax system to incentivize corporations to accept limits on political spending.

Jun 18, 2022

How our campaign finance system turns money into power without accountability

Jun 4, 2022

Forty years of the mantra of shareholder value have worked to change our system to bring corporate profit to new heights. Corporations today have…

May 21, 2022

Corporations are more profitable than ever

May 7, 2022

Tax expenditures redistribute wealth — upward!

Apr 16, 2022

How our tax system helps people become oligarchs

Apr 2, 2022

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