Taxation Archives

Taxation

Phony Capitalism

By Joseph Stiglitz, adapted from a white paper published in May by the Roosevelt Institute, where he is chief economist. Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

by Rebecca Solnit,

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

No Tax In The Champagne Room

by Robert Smith,

From the October 23, 2012, dissenting opinion of Judge Robert Smith in a case brought by the operators of Nite Moves, a strip club near Albany, against New York State’s…

The Entitlement Crisis That Isn’t

by Jeff Madrick,

At September’s Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton roused his party when he said that Republicans, having left Barack Obama with a “total mess,” were now complaining that the president hasn’t…

More Government, Please!

by Thomas Frank,

Tea Party in the Sonora

by Ken Silverstein,

For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona

Golden ages

by Cutter Wood,

Tax the Land

by Michael Hudson,

Why I Pay My Taxes

by Ben Metcalf,

And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? He saith, Yes. And when he was…

Get rich or get out

by Thomas Frank,

Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget

Paying through the nose

by Harper’s Staff,