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The Taxman Cometh

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By Corey Husak, Vanessa Williamson, William G. Gale
| Democracy Journal Verified
For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of American families do, your taxes shouldn’t go up.” By the time Joe Biden was President, that promise had extended to families making $400,000. This defensiveness is one tooth in a ratchet of anti-tax, anti-government sentiment that’s been plaguing this country for decades.
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A Journal of Ideas

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By Vanessa Williamson, William G. Gale
| Democracy Journal Verified
The success of any federal tax policy depends on the functioning of the Internal Revenue Service. Indeed, the success of any government is inseparable from its capacity to raise revenue. A government that cannot tax is no government at all. Since Trump took office for the second time, however, the IRS has lost a quarter of its workforce and three-quarters of its senior leadership. Much of its modernization agenda has been halted, and its taxpayer privacy protections have been trampled.
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Cracking Down on Pass-Throughs

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By Corey Husak, Vanessa Williamson
| Democracy Journal Verified
In 2016, a consortium of journalists exposed how a global elite including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the King of Saudi Arabia, drug dealers, and others hid their wealth (legally and illegally) using a network of shell companies and offshore tax havens. Known as the “Panama Papers” investigation, their project revealed how the wealthy and powerful use shell companies to hide billions in wealth and income from taxation, among other crimes.
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