“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes.… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“The worst of these are laws in nineteen states that let companies pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers’ paychecks… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“the weakness of the middle class is holding back tax receipts, especially because those at the top are so adroit in avoiding… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a master salesman. And he creates his own reality. So if he tells you, "This is a middle-class tax… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Politicians like to talk about the income tax when they talk about overtaxing the rich, but the income tax is just one… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Donald Trump ran for office complaining that at $19 trillion, the US debt was completely out of control, and yet what he's… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
One of the tax systems in the US is for wage earners. The government takes money from them out of each paycheck… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
Senior executives can, after a fashion, get a portion of their pay tax-free. You defer part of your income and not have… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“Wage insurance works best when all workers are covered under the same plan and the coverage starts at the beginning of their working lives.… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Pope Francis I, denouncing “an economy of exclusion,” has made inequality a centerpiece of his reign: Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill”… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income stagnation or… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
Congress is supposed to fund the IRS, and it has been steadily reducing the number of auditors and tax collectors the IRS has at… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“By 2012 the average income of the vast majority had shrunk to the equivalent of 45 weeks of 1973 income—a 13 percent decline to… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The worst of these are laws in nineteen states that let companies pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers’ paychecks for up… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“it shouldn’t be the case that the only route out of poverty is to get married to someone who also has a job.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Halliburton’s is a more extreme example, one in which a powerful and wealthy company transcends national borders so thoroughly that it is not an… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The real income reported on federal tax returns by the vast majority of Americans, the 90 percent, doubled between the end of the war and 1973.” — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have a one-time… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Social Security gives concrete expression to widely held and time-honored American commitments. Grounded in values of shared responsibility and concern for all members of… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“The anthropologist Elliot Liebow observed it in the men he chronicled in Tally’s Corner, his insightful 1967 book on the lives and attitudes of… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“One change we believe should be made is increasing the maximum amount of wages on which Social Security’s contributions are assessed. Contributions are assessed… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
“Not surprisingly, this huge American “industry” has huge political clout—with the expansion of prosecutorial and correctional workers’ power, the growing number of lobbyists for… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share
