This Little-Noticed Project 2025 Provision Could Supercharge Wealth Inequality
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Donald Trump presidency—you know, that document he knows nothing about even though 140 people from his first administration, including six former Cabinet members, helped create…
Worried About Kamala Harris’ Plan to Tax Unrealized Capital Gains? Don’t Bother.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Do you have $100 million? I don’t. Heck, I don’t even have $50 million! Which is why I’m not worried about the likes of President Joe Biden and maybe-president Kamala Harris and Rep. Barbara…
Another Likely Casualty of the Latest Supreme Court Rulings: The Taxman
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Schaff/The New York Times/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just when the IRS was starting to get its mojo back, the Supreme Court had to go and throw a wrench into the works. By now, most civic-minded Americans…
Will Congress’ Power Over Tax Policy Survive This Supreme Court?
Mother Jones; Engin Akyurt; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In December, I published an interview with the tax policy expert and attorney Steve Rosenthal titled “The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend a Century of Tax Law.” Dropped last week,…
Insulin Prices Are Deadly High—But Mutual Aid Is Keeping Diabetics Alive
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since May 2021, Rebecca Dotson has navigated type II diabetes with the help of mutual aid. Without the right resources—monitoring devices, insulin, and other medications—unmanaged diabetes can, at worst, kill people; it can also lead…
America’s Billionaires Are Really Going to Hate This New Senate Bill
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Almost as predictably as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the rich grow richer. “Wealth concentration in a few hands is the single most enduring economic pattern across all polities from…