Category Archives: Taxes

“In 2025, States Will Flip the Script on Taxes to Make the Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share”

State-level activists have been building coalitions to implement higher and more extensive taxes on the wealthy. What are their prospects?

Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts Expire Soon − Study Shows They Made Income Inequality Worse and Especially Hurt Black Americans

The first-term Trump tax cuts, increased inequality. So why does there seem to be so much complacency about their renewal?

It Is Possible to Have a Flat Tax, or to Have Democracy, but Not Both

Why a flat tax is yet another scheme to further enrich the rich and weaken the political power of ordinary citizens.

The New Economy and the Tariffs and Tax Breaks to Launch It

Analyses of planned Trump tariffs differ somewhat on the impact, but all find them to be negative. Will the Supremes save Trump from himself?

How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery

Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability

TaxCast on Green Laundering, Combatting Big Corporate Tax Dodging with Joseph Stiglitz, EU Competition Minister Margrethe Vesterger

A look at corporate misbehavior, here extreme tax avoidance and green laundering, and the progress of efforts to combat it.

Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry

“Crypto is a haven for businesspeople with nefarious or criminal intent.”

Kamala’s Failed Opportunity

In her DNC speech, Kamala Harris embraced Republican language on the economy. So how deep does her purported progressivism run?

Satyajit Das: The Rich Are Different!

A discussion of how the rich got to be that way and why their justifications for their advantaged status don’t stand up to much scrutiny.

‘Absurd!’: US Billionaires Pay Lower Tax Rate Than Working Class for First Time

“It’s time to tax the billionaires,” economist Gabriel Zucman argues in a new analysis.

Taxing Income from Wealth Can Always Raise More Money Than a Wealth Tax

Why a wealth tax is not all it is cracked up to be, but a well-designed income tax can do a fine job of curtailing wealth disparity.

TaxCast #142: Blockchain Havens

How blockchain/crypto tax havens are displacing traditional tax havens.