Shifting the tax burden

Shifting the tax burden

Sales taxes are regressive. They take a larger percentage of money from low income families than they do higher income families. That’s why liberals in North Carolina howled when the Republicans running the legislature reduced the income tax rate on the highest...
Plundering the poor

Plundering the poor

When North Carolina Republicans took power, one of the first things they did was change the tax code to benefit the wealthiest people in the state. They followed the same principles that the Reagan revolutionaries followed, shifting the tax burden from the rich to the...
Happy Tax Day!

Happy Tax Day!

Tax Day reminds us that the GOP has two conflicting talking points on taxes. On the one hand, they like to tell us that cutting taxes puts more money into the pockets of working people. On the other, they like to remind us that 50% of the people don’t pay federal...

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