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redistribution of income

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

How Zero-Sum Thinking May Affect Attitudes About Taxes

Do you think about the world as “zero-sum,” where resources are limited and my gain is your loss? Or do you believe that resources are...
April 19, 2024Howard Gleckman
Individual Taxes: TaxVox

Is It Time To Rethink The Scale and Progressivity of the Tax System?

Is the US tax code both too small and too progressive? That’s the argument of Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise...
October 25, 2016Howard Gleckman
: TaxVox

“Money Is Like Manure… Not Worth a Thing Unless It’s Spread Around.”

TPC shows how President Obama would redistribute income from the rich to the poor. The President will release his budget next week, and with it, a tax plan analyzed by the Tax Policy Center . TPC’s Howard Gleckman explains that under the plan, after- tax income would increase by about $175 in 2016
January 29, 2015Renu Zaretsky