Taxonomist Columns by Robert McIntyre in

The American Prospect

Jul. 28, 06: Report Retort. Bush Treasury Dismisses "Supply-Side Economics"

Dec. 19, 05: The 5th Annual Bush Tax Cut: How Big? How Bad?

Dec. 2005: This is Simplification? Bush's tax deform panel wants more complexity.

Nov. 2005: Seeking to Set the Squawkers Straight. CNBC faces up to arithmetic.

Sept. 2005: My, How Times Have Changed. Our President and Congress think oil companies' windfall profits just aren't high enough.

Aug. 2005: Down Is Up (or so some say). Taxes remain at record lows, but the right claims otherwise.

June 2005: Bush's Tax Deform Panel. It's a hoax, but it may be an opportunity.

May 2005: Wild Pitch. The Senate votes to boost Social Security benefits for the best-off seniors.

Apr. 2005: They Make It Up, You Decide. The Heritage Foundation's false attack on CTJ's corporate tax reports.

Mar. 2005: Bush's Double-Barreled Attack on Social Security.

Feb. 2005: State Corporate Tax Follies. State corporate taxes are even more of a mess than the federal tax.

Jan. 2005: New Year's Resolutions for Journalists. How to report tax and fiscal news.

Dec. 2004: Tax Missimplification-It's Not a Done Deal. Right-wing notions of tax deform won't appeal to the general public, whose taxes would rise sharply.

Nov. 2004: It's Your Money They're Wasting. America's biggest corporations are thumbing their noses at the tax collector, at our expense, but our political leaders don't care.

Oct. 2004: Bush to Middle Class: Now for Some Bad News. The President's tax deform plan is supposed to be revenue neutral. So with more tax cuts for the wealthy in the offing, the middle class will face much higher taxes.

Sept. 2004: The Facilitators. How America's biggest accounting firms' tax sheltering advice helped destroy Yukos Oil (and democracy) in Russia.

Aug. 2004: Civilization's Price. We need higher, and smarter taxes. Tax cheats and those who can afford to pay more should top the list.

July 2004: Oinkonomics: The Anti-Jobs Corporate Pork Bill. Congress is giving away the store again to big business, and the losers will be American workers.

June 2004: In Praise of the Alternative Minimum Tax. It's complicated and annoying. But the AMT does scale back some of Bush's unaffordable tax cuts for those who don't need them.

May 2004: Do Fat Cats Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Workers. Tax on earnings are now far higher than on investment income.

Apr. 2004: Social Security's Zealous Raider. Fed chief Alan Greenspan wants to scale back retirement benefits to pay for more tax cuts for the rich.

Mar. 2004: Joker in Chief. Bush says he has a plan to cut the deficit. But he's just kidding.

Feb. 2004: Tax Cheaters & Their Implementers. David Cay Johnston's new book, Perfectly Legal, details a tidal wave of tax cheating by the super rich.

Jan. 2004: No Common Sense in the Commonwealth. Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's doesn't do the job.

Dec. 2003: Loophole Consolidation Program. GOP tax deform plans would expand upper-income tax breaks.

Nov. 2003: Gimme Shelters. Corporate taxes have already plummeted under Bush. Congress wants to make things even worse.

Oct. 2003: Bush's $10 Trillion Dollar Borrowing Binge. The President plans to fund a third of the government outside of Social Security with debt for the foreseeable future.

Sept. 2003: MCI's Latest Scam. The fraudulent phone company seeks an unjustified $10 billion tax loophole.

July 2003: Third Time's No Charm. The third annual awful Bush tax cut passes, with corporations the big winners.

June 2003: Another Colossal Corporate Tax Cut. More corporate tax breaks are on the way.

May 2003: Could We Fund the Government Entirely by Borrowing? The right wing seems to think so.

Apr. 2003: ASAs, BSAs, CSAs . . . ZSAs. Bush's phony call for tax simplification.

Mar. 2003: Leave No Child Without a Huge National Debt George W. Bush's latest tax cut program combines gross irresponsibility with calculated mendacity

Feb. 2003: Evildoer. Our President just can't stop pushing more harmful tax cuts for the rich

Jan. 2003: Old Wine in New Bottles. Bush's "new" economic team will only give us more of the same

Dec. 2002: Reality Check. Why the Bush Treasury Department's line on corporate taxes doesn't track.

Dec. 2002: President George W. McKinley? Bush wants to take tax policy back to the robber-baron era.

Nov. 2002: The Tax Cheaters Lobby. How the banking industry and the right foment tax evasion.

Nov. 2002: Standing Up Against America. An army of mercenaries has enlisted to defend the Bermuda tax loophole.

Oct. 2002: Dubyanomics. Bush's budget policies make Reaganomics look honest.

Oct. 2002: Corruption Revisited and (Maybe) Reversed. Bush's plan to give research credits for not doing research may be scaled back.

Sept. 2002: What If We'd Already Privatized Social Security. Given how the stock market has crumbled lately, it would have been a very bad step.

Sept. 2002: Jim McGreevey, Working-Class Hero. New Jersey's governor stands alone in the state corporate-tax-reform hall of fame.

Aug. 2002: Multinational Tax Deform. The problem's not just the corporations-it's the Republicans who actively support them.

Aug. 2002: Sam's Amazing $5,000 Dream Coat. And Other Lies Told to the House Tax Shelter Committee.

July 2002: Alaska's Infinite Regress. Where regressive taxation isn't an option-it's a foregone conclusion.

July 2002: America' Most Favored Taxpayers. The Bush's tax cuts that remain to phase in will go overwhelmingly to the very best off.

June 2002: Tax Complification. The individual Alternative Minimum Tax is headed toward taking over the income tax system.

June 2002: States Blow Off Bush. States refuse to go along with Bush's corporate tax breaks.

March 2002: Putting Profits Over Patriotism. Corporations are renouncing their U.S. citizenship and pretending to move to Bermuda, to avoid paying taxes.

Jan. 2002: Merry Christmas to the Tax Credit Abusers. The corporate lobbyists in charge of tax policy under Bush proposes to give research tax credits to companies that don't do any research.

June 2001: Tax Cheaters Lobby. The right stands up for tax evasion-and the Bush administration agrees.

April 2001: Rewriting History: A Cautionary Tale. Tom DeLay tries to rewrite the history of Reagan and the national debt.

May 2000: Accountants Tout Multinational Tax Shelters. For about $5,000, you can attend the conference, too.

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