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Read My Lips: Fairer Taxes

Six ways to restore balance to our broken system

David CallahanApr 12, 2012
(Flickr/TruthOut)

This piece is the fourth in a six-part series on taxation, and a joint project by The American Prospect and its publishing partner, Demos.

The “Buffett Rule” proposed by President Obama and now being considered by the Senate would be an important symbolic step toward a fairer tax system. By instituting a minimum tax on very high earners, it would advance the principle of progressive taxation and reform the tax code in an overdue way.

Home Is Where The Property Taxes Are Mad High

Adam SerwerJul 18, 2011

Matthew Yglesias on Pamela Johnson, who owns a storefront in D.C.'s Northeast H Street corridor and is upset about the streetcar being built:

Tom Cruise Makes the Case for Fairer Tax Law

PaulMar 07, 2011

How do you define a "farm"? In some places, all it takes is a couple of sheep. And this makes a big difference when it comes to property taxes. Think Progress points us to this article in the Denver Post:

None of Us Is 'Escaping' Our Taxes.

Monica PottsApr 07, 2010

Sometimes, the Associated Press makes you wonder from what planet they are reporting. Sometimes, the facts are simply wrong or confused. Other times, the facts are laid out in such an inflammatory way that people will be able to take from them what they will.

Today, under the headline "Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax," the AP does that by making it seem as though almost half the country freeloads on the other half by avoiding federal taxes all together. If the headline doesn't give the impression that most of us are purposefully evading taxes, the first paragraphs certainly make it seem that way.

Refusing to Pay for Street Lights.

Monica PottsFeb 02, 2010

When I became a reporter for the daily newspaper in Stamford, Connecticut, one of the controversies we were covering concerned garbage collection. Residents were upset about service cutbacks -- so much so that one of them sued. You might think garbage collectors were limiting days for pickup, or limiting the amount of trash each household could leave on the corner. But no. The controversy was that trash collectors were no longer going into people's backyards to cart their trash cans all the way to the truck. That's right. These residents were up in arms that they now had to cart the bins across their yards themselves.