When people talk about whether a tax system is fair, the term regressive tax often comes up — especially in discussions about ...

Many view the 2017 Republican tax reform – The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) – as a giveaway to the rich. “The most regressive tax cut in the past 50 years.” proclaimed one Washington Post blogger. “The ...

Local, state and federal governments need to tax citizens so that they can pay for the programs and services those citizens need. And while U.S. federal taxes are a progressive tax system, there are ...

The vast majority of state and local tax systems are regressive, costing lower-income workers more of their income than wealthier residents. Although top earners contribute more total dollars, ...

GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee recently got into a spirited debate with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace about Huckabee’s proposal to replace all federal taxes with a national retail sales tax, ...

The chart above displays the estimated burdens of trade tariffs (as a share of after-tax household income) on US households by income deciles. It represents graphically the main conclusion of a new ...

In the distant past, Republican moderates were people like Senators Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Bob Packwood of Oregon who preached fiscal responsibility and were reasonably tolerant of the ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., are calling on the next administration to forgive $50,000 in student loan debt for every borrower through executive ...

Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the ...