by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 15, 2017 | • Politics
Analysis | Kansas’s conservative experiment may have gone worse than people thought When Kansas Republican lawmakers voted to raise state taxes last week, they were not only rebuking their own governor, they were tacitly admitting that his tax cuts hadn’t...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 14, 2017 | Economics & The Economy
Who actually paid 90 tax rate? In 1944-45, during World War II, couples making more than $200,000 faced an all-time high of 94 percent. Sanders said income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent. A look through the records shows that top earners in the...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 14, 2017 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality
Three Reasons Trickle-Down Tax Cuts Don’t Work History shows that bad economic ideas almost never die, especially when they serve the wealthy and powerful. There’s no better example of this truth than trickle-down tax...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 19, 2016 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, The 2016 Presidential Race
Architect of Reagan Tax Cuts Says Trump Should Not Use His Plan – BillMoyers.com In a speech outlining his plan to “jumpstart” the economy last week, Donald Trump unveiled new proposals that would dramatically cut taxes. It would be, he said, the...
