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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/19/2022
  

  The Dems' IRA Message Would Be More Effective If It Weren't Afraid of Touting Taxes

  by Molly Michelmore

  The last four decades of tax-cutting have crippled democracy. Democrats need to learn lessons from a time when paying taxes was popular and patriotic. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  4/4/2022
  

  Your House Makes More Money than You Do

  Rising real estate values are bringing more wealth to Americans than wages and salaries are. This is a big problem for economic equality.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/5/2021
  

  The Lesson of Venice's 17th Century Plague? Tax the Rich

  by Yong Kwon

  By making only a temporary commitment to public works funded by taxing the city's merchant elite, Venice emerged from the plague with an overburdened workforce, less ability to attract labor, and a declining economy. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  7/20/2021
  

  The U.S. Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist

  by Josh Mound

  There have been historical precursors to the recent ProPublica report on the extremely low taxes paid by the ultrawealthy. Will this revelation lead to more lasting changes in the tax code that thwart the hoarding of wealth? 

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• 4/4/2021
  

  Economic Justice and Political Stability Require More Progressive Taxation

  by Joseph Preston Baratta

  As populist anger at economic unfairness surges on both the left and right, the time has come to return the United States to the progressive taxation of the mid-20th century to ensure both economic balance and political stability. 

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-24-13
  

  Kenneth F. Scheve Jr. and David Stasavage: Is the Estate Tax Doomed?

  Kenneth F. Scheve Jr. is a professor of political science at Stanford University. David Stasavage, a professor of politics at New York University, is the author of “States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities.Under the deal struck by President Obama and Congress to avert the “fiscal cliff,” the estate tax — long targeted for elimination by Republicans — survived, but in a substantially diminished form.In 2001, the year George W. Bush became president, individual estates over $675,000 were taxed and the top rate was 55 percent. Now, the maximum tax is 40 percent and only individual estates worth more than $5.25 million are taxed (a figure that will now be automatically adjusted for inflation).