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Interregnum: Feedback and Comments
This issue asks for reader feedback and suggestions, and responds to some interesting comments made about the last issue.
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Subsidies
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.
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Simplifying Taxes to Sustain Democracy
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…
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Economic Anger and Resentment
Why So Many People are Angry About the Economy
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Taxing Capital Gains as Ordinary Income
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…
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Reducing the Political Power of Corporate Money
Proposals to change the tax system to incentivize corporations to accept limits on political spending.
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Turning Money Into Power
How our campaign finance system turns money into power without accountability
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Why Corporate Earnings are Soaring
Forty years of the mantra of shareholder value have worked to change our system to bring corporate profit to new heights. Corporations today have…
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High-Flying Corporations
Corporations are more profitable than ever
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Redistributing Wealth
Tax expenditures redistribute wealth — upward!
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Growing Oligarchs
How our tax system helps people become oligarchs
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