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BELOW ARE LINKS, REFERENCES AND BOOKS ABOUT INEQUALITY OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, TAX INEQUALITY, AND TAX REFORM
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LINK OF THE MONTH: The Republicans tax cuts for the wealthy are the real failed stimulus, an it cost 10 times more than Obama's partial fix of the problem they created: GOP failed stimulus
Web tax links - Progressive
Wealth for the Common Good - a network of the wealthy working to increase their taxes - http://wealthforcommongood.org/
United for a Fair Economy - "Our vision is of a global society where prosperity is better shared." - United for a Fair Economy
Edward Wolff, NYU economics professor, argues for a modest progressive wealth tax - http://bostonreview.net/BR21.1/wolff.html
Leon Friedman, Constitutional law professor proposes a wealth tax that would be constitutional - American Prospect
Edward Wolff interview on wealth disparity in the US - Wolff interview
Chuck Collins, scholar from the Institute of Policy Studies, argues for shifting more taxes to the wealthy - Collins ComDr
John Halle proposes wealth tax to fund financial bailouts - http://www.counterpunch.org/halle09242008.html
Senator Sanders excoriates the GOP for demanding tax cuts for the top 2% - Sander's youtube
From the Wall Street Journal on the economic expansion following the Clinton tax increase on the wealthy - WSJ Clinton
Sheldon Drobny argues that Bush tax cuts for the wealthy led to the housing bubble and the 2008 recession - Housing bubble
From 1995 to 2007 the effective federal individual income tax rates on the top 400 incomes declines from 30% to 17% - Top 400
Report on the GOP's tax policy shows they abandoned the middle class for the benefit of the very rich - Rolling Stone
Democratic-led Congressional Committee argues against extending Bush tax-cuts, saying they provided no stimulous - d-jec08
Nancy Folbre, economic professor - NYT blog reviews of the wealthy advocating higher taxes - Folbre NYT blog
Billionaire Warren Buffett says in this video that taxes on the wealthy are too low and should be increased - Buffett video
Warren Buffett offers $1 million to any member of the Forbes 400 that pays a higher tax rate than their secretary - Buffett
Economist argues fro reversing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and that they do not stimulate the economy - Reverse tax cuts
Ben Stein NY Times writer, economist, lawyer, and Republican argues for increased taxes on the wealthy - NYT Stein
CEO of Netflix proposes an increase in the income tax rate for those making over $1 million - Hasting's NYT Oped
Arul Menezes, leader at Microsoft, argues for increased taxes on the wealthy as an investment for future generations - Menezes
Donald Trump proposed a one-time 14% wealth tax on fortunes over $10million - Trump tax proposal
A progressive website with many opinion pieces on tax policy - Institute for Policy Studies
Fair Taxes for All - advocating a fair tax system with many great links on their resource page - FairTaxes4ALL
Richard Wolff on the growth of property taxes making our overall tax system more regressive - Wolff property taxes
Senator Sanders excoriates the GOP for demanding tax cuts for the top 2% - Senator Sanders video
Nobel laureate economist on the tax rates of the very wealthy - Krugman 2012
The author wrote if he saw this FairShare website first, he would not have bothered with his book - http://www.2pctsolution.com/
An advocate of a combined wealth tax, income tax and sales tax - http://taxnetwealth.com/
A historian shows that attempting to encourage investment with tax policy fails to help the economy - Livingston Op-ed
A tax lawyer describes how the capital gains of the very wealthy go untaxed and are inherited tax-free - NYT Smith
Mother Jones brings us 6 Dumb arguments against having the wealthy pay their fair share - MotherJ6
9 Things The Rich Don't Want you to Know About Taxes - David Cay Johnston
Mitt Romney’s taxes, positions and quotations - On Romney by M Burch
Economics professor Robert Frank shows how higher taxes don’t hurt but help the wealthy - New York Times Article
Robert Reich shows why our economy is still faltering in 2012 - Reich - The rich have sucked it dry
Web tax links - Conservative
Republican led Congressional Committee argues that Bush tax cuts make the US more "competitive" - r-jec04
George C. Leef writes against proposal for wealth tax to fund education - http://www.fff.org/comment/com0503o.asp
Heritage foundation claims 1997 tax reduction rather than 1993 tax hike related to strong economy 1992-2000 - Heritage
Blog applauds Sweden repealing 1.5% wealth tax - Sweden wealth tax repeal blog
Flight of the French...[due to wealth and other taxes]. T McNicoll; Newsweek International; 9/26/05 - Newsweek Flight French
Republicans claim that ALL Cap and trade revenues paid by corporations translate into higher consumer prices - Cap-Trd
Web tax links - Neutral
Wikipedia Wealth Tax article in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
Wikipedia Overview of Taxation in the US - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States#List_of_taxes
Wikipedia summary of annual Federal Budgets 2006-10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_federal_budget
"The Economist" online debate over increasing taxes on the rich - http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/142
How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? T Piketty, E Saez; J of Econ Persps; 21(1):3-24; 2007 - Piketty's Progressive?
Bruce Barltett, advisor to Pres. Reagan, summarizes recent changes in tax law - Bartlett in Forbes
Bruce Bartlett, advisor to Pres. Reagan, argues in favor of increased taxes on the wealthy - Bartlett in NYTimes
Capital Gains tax reduction helped lower income tax rates of 400 highest incomes from 30% to 18% 1995-2005 - Top 400
Summary of tax rates 1900-2010 - Tax rate graph
President Obama's campaign statements and voting record on tax reform - Obama on tax reform
NY Times report on proposed wealth tax in New Jersey; 9/3/00 - NYT NJ Wealth Tax
Wikipedia article on a proposal to replace income, payroll, and estate taxes with a 30% national sales tax - So-called "Fair" Tax
Summary data of all government spending by year -http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/index.php
Tax quotations at a poetry website - http://www.thehypertexts.com/Tax....
CBO paper on who ultimately pays corporate taxes - CBO Corporate tax paper
Berkshire Hathaway annual report - http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2006ar/2006ar.pdf
Carbon excise taxes successful in Ireland - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/science/earth/in-ireland-carbon-taxes
Kids can get involved, writing to Congress - https://bumpreveal.com/statistics/kids-to-congress/
Links on Economic and Opportunity Inequality
Excellent site on the social problems associated with wealth inequality - http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/why
Meta-analysis showing link between income inequality, poor health and increased mortality - BMJ Meta-analysis
How tax cuts for the wealthy and wealth concentration damages our economy - Nobel-winning economist Stiglitz in the NY Times
Increasing US economic inequity in other countries over time- http://www.sustainablemiddleclass.com/Gini-Coefficient.html
Essay on the arguments for and against wealth redistribution - http://robertdfeinman.com/society/wealth_distribution.html
Societies fail and the rich suffer when they accumulate too much wealth and power - Chrystia Freeland NYT: Self-Destruction of 1%
Income inequality damages economic growth - Eduardo Porter in the NYTimes
Scholarly paper: Economic inequality hurts economic growth - http://escholarship.org/uc/item/00x7n68q
A web site devoted to shared economic growth - Economic Policy Institute
Center for American Progress on Poverty Issues - americanprogress.org
A weekly e-newsletter on economic excess and inequality in the US - Too Much
A compilation of articles and books on economic Inequality - CrofsBlog
"Fifteen mind-blowing charts on economic inequality in the United States" - Inequality Charts
Video of wealth disparity in the USA - Wealth inequity video
Robert Reich explains the problems with the economy in less than 2 minutes, 15 seconds - Reich video
How income and wealth inequality hurts the economy in Bloomberg Businessweek- Bloomberg article
Social mobility now lower in the US than Great Britain of Scandinavia - http://ftp.iza.org/dp1938.pdf
Pew survey shows new perceived strong conflict between rich and poor - Pew-Conflict-Rich-Poor
Wikipedia article on Economic Inequity - see especially Incentives and Growth sections - Wiki EcIneq Incent-Growth
Wikipedia article reviews causes and effects of Economic Inequality - Wiki Economic Inequality
Wikipedia article on the Income Inequality in the USA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States
Wikipedia article on the Condensation (concentration) of Wealth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_condensation
Wikipedia article on the Distribution of Wealth world-wide and in the USA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
Wikipedia article on Wealth in the USA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_in_the_United_States
Wikipedia article on the Distribution of Income in the USA - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Books
Top Heavy (EN Wolff) - Describes the growing wealth disparity and proposes a wealth tax - Wolff's Top Heavy
The Wealth Inequality Reader - 38 essays describes the causes, effects, solutions to rising wealth inequality - Wealth Inequality
The Conscience of a Liberal (P Krugman) - Nobel prize economist on growing economic and political inequality - Krugman Conc.
Perfectly Legal (D Johnston) - Pulitzer prize winning journalist chronicles how the tax system is rigged for the very rich - P. Legal
The Stakeholder Society (B Ackerman) - A grant for each young adult funded by a 2% wealth tax - Ackerman's Stakeholder
Wealth and Our Commonwealth (W Gates) - Bill Gates Sr. argue for maintaining and reforming the estate tax - Gate's Wealth
Free Lunch (D Johnston) - How the wealthy enrich themselves at taxpayer expense - http://www.davidcayjohnston.com/
Fundamental Tax Reform (ed. WJ Diamond) - Effects of a consumption-based tax - Diamond's Fundamental Tax Reform
Toward Fundamental Tax Reform (ed. KA Hassett) - From the AEI, a conservative think tank - http://www.aei.org/book/820
The Ten Percent Solution (TM Moore) - 92-page history & reform proposal for simplified US taxes - Moore's Ten Percent Solution
The Political Economy of Tax Reform (ed. T Ito) - The political contraints on achieving tax reform - Ito's The Political Economy....
Death by a Thousand Cuts (M Graetz) - The fight over the inheritance tax & implications for tax reform - Graetz's Death...
