While life during the novel coronavirus pandemic has been easy for no one, it’s been especially challenging for people who are caretakers, whether that includes children, older folks in the home, …
On Monday, TIME magazine offered up a preview of its upcoming “Person of the Year” issue. Since the Meredith Corporation took control of the magazine, the cover has been graced by capital-J …
How much more dystopian can modern life get here in the United States? This question feels more than a little dangerous, given that Republicans continue to show us that they seem to have no …
The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation tweeted out this low-key correction to its previous analysis on the House’s Build Back Better bill and the tax provisions included in it. “The staff of the …
The legal of the former guy just keep hanging over Capitol Hill like a huge cloud of toxic hot air. It’s not just the lingering fear from Jan. 6 and violent threats from Republicans, it’s the remnants …
A lot of rich people have gotten very good at not paying their taxes. Hell, The Man Who Lost An Election And Tried To Steal It bragged about avoiding taxes, and thought it was a selling point for his …
There are only three things that can be considered policy ideas for the Grand Old Party of racist misogynists these days: 1) people who can reproduce shouldn’t have control over reproductive rights, …
Democrats Sens. Ron Wyden (Oregon) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) have introduced a new tax on corporations that’s likely to be included in the reconciliation bill now being drafted in both the House …
The good news for the IRS is that most Americans pay their fair share of taxes. A new analysis of incomes and returns suggests that tax compliance for low- and middle-income workers is “high.” As The …
It is Friday! The Republican Party’s never-ending plan to do absolutely nothing and blame everyone else for its impotence continues unabated! At every turn, reality and facts fly in their faces, and …
Whenever Donald Trump gets a chance to get on stage in front of red-hat insurgents and would-be insurgents, one of his standard tropes is to talk about all his accomplishments. But unless Trump wants …
Given the absolute onslaught of news we’ve experienced in recent months (if not recent years), it can feel like the presidential debates for the 2020 election happened a lifetime ago. Many of us here …
There was never a moment’s doubt about the actual legality of the situation. The Internal Revenue Code instructs the Department of the Treasury to hang onto tax returns. It also provides that the …
Several months back, Republicans drew a red line in the sand in their negotiations with Democrats on a bill to make massive investments in American jobs and infrastructure: It couldn’t touch …
Back in November 2020, after investigations into decades of Donald Trump’s tax returns revealed the former president didn’t seem to ever pay any taxes, reports came out in The New York Times detailing …
For a very long time now, the majority of Americans have supported raising taxes on the very wealthiest people and entities in our country. For a very long time now, the Republican Party has gone …
It’s Child Tax Credit Awareness Day, and if you didn’t know that before, now you do. Vice President Kamala Harris is making a big push to publicize and explain the newly expanded tax …
New York Democratic Rep. Thomas Suozzi has an idea. It’s just the beginnings of the idea, but it’s an idea. Given how extraordinarily well America’s wealthiest people did during a …
A talk with authors Morris Pearl and Erica Payne, capitalist prophets of tax fairness.
By Kelly Candaele, for Capital & Main
Benjamin Franklin quipped that the only things we can be certain about …
Perhaps the single most consistently held policy position in American politics over the past century is this: The Republican Party wants the rich to pay as little in taxes as possible. Currently, the …
