It’s tax season and everywhere we look there are pieces about clever tax strategies. Those are about personal tax strategies. But what about societal tax strategies? Our current tax system is broken. For instance, the investigative news outlet ProPublica revealed that: The 25 richest people in the United States paid a “true” tax rate of […]| Values Added
The Educational Choice for Children Act of 2025 would ostensibly provide a tax break on charitable donations to organizations that give out private K-12 school vouchers. Most of the so-called “contributions,” however, would be made by wealthy people solely for the tax savings, as those savings would typically be larger than their contributions.| ITEP
DC Should End Special Tax Treatment that Makes the Wealthy Even Wealthier.| DC Fiscal Policy Institute
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income tax for as much as a decade at a time.| ProPublica
Sheer stupidity and malice is killing us. Degrowth is the united plan we need.| geoffreydeihl.substack.com
A six-month wait for unemployment insurance. A paperwork nightmare over an insurance reimbursement. Drug tests for cash benefits. Why is there so much red tape in American life?| The Atlantic
More than one in four dollars of wealth in the U.S. is held by a tiny fraction of households with net worth over $30 million. Nationally, we estimate that wealth over $30 million per household will reach $26 trillion in 2022 with roughly one-fifth of that amount ($4.5 trillion) held by billionaires.| ITEP
After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires.| ProPublica
A massive trove of tax information obtained by ProPublica, covering thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, reveals what’s inside the billionaires’ bag of tricks for minimizing their personal tax bills — sometimes to nothing.| ProPublica
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.| ProPublica
Taxing billionaires on their wealth may sound novel, but the ideas behind it are already frequently used in the tax code.| ProPublica
Visionary. Showman. Iconoclast. Troll. How Elon Musk is reshaping our world—and beyond| Time
