In her book The Second Estate, Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax system lets the ultra-rich grow their wealth tax-free while working Americans bear the burden. Officially, at least, the United ...
Taxes make civilization possible. When the ancient Greeks introduced democracy roughly 2,500 years ago, they implemented a progressive taxation prototype so that those who benefited most bore the ...
In pre-revolutionary France, the highly privileged nobility known as the Second Estate was legally exempt from paying taxes, shifting the burden to everyone else, including peasants, wage-earners, and ...