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Organized Plunder

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
by Elias Rodriques, Clinton Williamson via The New Inquiry on July 27, 2022
A worker sits with his head in his hands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 24, 2008, as the markets endured losses.

How The Neoliberal Order Triumphed — And Why It’s Now Crumbling

Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.
by Mario Del Pero via Washington Post on May 6, 2022
John D. Rockefeller Jr., right, was the country's biggest taxpayer in 1923, when public disclosure of tax payments was required by law. President Calvin Coolidge, left, pushed Congress to repeal the disclosure law in 1926. This photo was taken in 1925.

Americans’ Taxes Used To Be Public — Until the Rich Revolted

Thanks to the efforts of wealthy taxpayers, the "big reveal" of the 1920s was extremely short-lived.
by Ronald G. Shafer via Retropolis on April 18, 2022
Collage of photos of Andrew Mellon, Ethel Mars and E.W. Scripps.

The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations

A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties created in the 1900s are going strong.
by Patricia Callahan, James Bandler, Justin Elliot, Doris Burke, Jeff Ernsthausen via ProPublica on December 15, 2021
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The Way We Tax

From municipal government to international trade, these writings examine the political rhetoric, economic theories, and changing policies of taxation in the U.S.

We Can’t Blame the South Alone for Anti-Tax Austerity Politics

The legacy of slavery is often invoked to explain the stunted welfare state. But the strongest resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class.
by Noam Maggor via Jacobin on November 15, 2021
A black and white photo of historian Mae Ngai.

“We’ve Always Had Activists in Our Communities”

May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.
by Mae Ngai, Jilene Chua via Public Books on October 13, 2021
President Madison ending the Embargo Act cartoon

James Madison and the Debilitating American Tendency to Make Everything About the Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was the reason for Madison and Hamilton's breakup.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on October 11, 2021
Painting of George Washington on horseback, leading troops through the countryside to squash the Whiskey Rebellion.

Examining Public Opinion during the Whiskey Rebellion

This armed uprising in 1794, over taxation by the fledgling new government, threatened to destroy the new union within six years of the Constitution’s ratification.
by Jonathan Curran via Journal of the American Revolution on September 7, 2021
A cracked picture of Washington crossing the Delaware River.

The Incoherence of American History

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic.
by Osita Nwanevu via The New Republic on August 11, 2021
Truman in car with dollar signs on eyes.

The Truman Show

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.
by Paul Campos via Intelligencer on July 24, 2021

The US Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist

The recent ProPublica exposé shows we need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 20, 2021
Picture of Richard Nixon from National Archive.

The Day That Richard Nixon Changed U.S. Economic Policy Forever

Fifty years ago, in response to rising inflation, he rejected several long-standing practices. His Keynesian turn holds lessons for today’s economy.
by Bruce Bartlett via The New Republic on July 9, 2021
Title page of a collection of the letters that debated Great Britain, inscribed to President John Adams.

Massachusettensis and Novanglus: The Last Great Debate Prior to the American Revolution

James M. Smith explains the last debates between Loyalists and Patriots prior to the official outbreak of the American Revolution.
by James M. Smith via Journal of the American Revolution on May 25, 2021
A graphic that reads "taxpayer dollars."

"Taxpayer Dollars:" The Origins of Austerity’s Racist Catchphrase

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.
by Camille Walsh via Mother Jones on April 5, 2021

Evanston, Ill., Leads the Country With First Reparations Program for Black Residents

The $10 million initiative will provide housing and mortgage assistance to address discrimination.
by Mark Guarino via Washington Post on March 23, 2021
Silhouette with pieces of constitutions and other prints inside

When Constitutions Took Over the World

Was this new age spurred by the ideals of the Enlightenment or by the imperatives of global warfare?
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 22, 2021
Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Against the Consensus Approach to History

How not to learn about the American past.
by William Hogeland via The New Republic on January 25, 2021
A composite photograph of South Carolina's majority-black legislature created and circulated by opponents of Reconstruction

The Austerity Politics of White Supremacy

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.
by Vanessa Williamson via Dissent on January 11, 2021
Person on beach with a cigar in their mouth and holding money in their hand

The End of Empire and the Rise of Tax Havens

How decolonisation propelled the growth of low-tax jurisdictions, with lasting economic implications for former colonies.
by Vanessa Ogle via New Statesman on December 18, 2020

Footing the COVID-19 Bill: Economic Case for Tax Hike on Wealthy

There is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.
by David Hope, Julian Limberg via The Conversation on December 16, 2020
A painting of George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion.

The Revolutionary Language and Behavior of the Whiskey Rebels

On the continued revolutionary rhetoric and ideology that persisted in America even after the American Revolution.
by Kyler Burd via Journal of the American Revolution on December 10, 2020

Stop Worrying About Protecting ‘Taxpayers.’ That Isn’t the Government’s Job.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Washington Post on August 3, 2020

Walt Disney's Empty Promise

For so many of the millions of tourists who come to Orlando, this—Disney, Universal Studios, I-Drive, all of it—stands in for America itself.
by Kent Russell via The Paris Review on July 10, 2020

Stories in the Shine

"Moonshine" is now a big thing in the liquor biz. But it takes a visit to West Virginia to get a sense of the complex stories in every barrel.
by Mickie Meinhardt via The Bitter Southerner on June 30, 2020

How the IRS Was Gutted

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed and hamstrung. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy.
by Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger via ProPublica on December 11, 2018
The port of Canton

China and the American Revolution

Explaining the global impact of British-Chinese relations during the colonial period.
by Simon Hill via Journal of the American Revolution on December 7, 2017

Wealth, Slavery, and the History of American Taxation

The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on April 20, 2017
Lyndon Johnson campaigning in Illinois in 1964, the year he declared ‘war on poverty;’ Johnson signing an autograph for an elderly woman.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.
by Christopher Jencks via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2015
Marine hospital

Sailors’ Health and National Wealth

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.
by Gautham Rao via Commonplace on October 1, 2008
A magnifying glass on C. Wright Mills's book "The Power Elite."

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.
by Peter Dreier via The New Republic on May 5, 2025
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