Taxes: Estate Evidence

Estate Tax Basics

06/14/2010

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. June 14, 2010. 

"Policy Basics: The Estate Tax" is a fact sheet gives readers a solid breakdown of the tax, what it means and how it may change in the future. Even a simple document like this counters some of the more outrageous myths conservatives propagate about the policy.

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Conservative Commentator Examines the History of Right-Wing Tax Cut Hypocrisy

02/27/2009

Bruce Bartlett. Forbes. February 27, 2009.

"Higher Taxes: Will the Republicans Cry Wolf on Taxes Again?" explores the history of hard right opposition to raising taxes of any kind, showing that reactionary predictions of economic apocalypse didn’t come to pass under either Clinton or Reagan. (Bartlett was an advisor to Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush.) 

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Tax Cuts on the Rich Don't Spur Economic Growth

09/12/2008

Michael Ettlinger and John Irons. Center for American Progress. September 12, 2008.

"Take a Walk on the Wild Side" debunks the supply-side myth -- that lower tax rates on the wealthy and corporations will necessarily lead to higher economic growth. There is little, if any, correlation between supply-side economics and the benefits that its proponents promise.

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