Issue brief
Honest Progressive Taxation
How should high incomes and corporations contribute without wrecking investment?
Our position
Pursue a simpler progressive system with stronger enforcement, fewer preferences for well-connected income, and published revenue models. Evaluate broader bases and higher top rates with behavioral ranges—not slogans.
Why it matters
Households carrying ordinary wage income should not subsidize opaque preferences for the politically connected. Fiscal responsibility means sustainable revenue and spending together.
Evidence
Recent national polling shows majority support for raising taxes on high household incomes and corporations, while exact rates and bases remain contested. Historical high marginal rates are not interchangeable with modern tax bases.
Strongest objection
Capital flight and investment harm are real risks. Publish static and behavioral estimates, migration sensitivity, and effects on pass-through businesses before adopting brackets.
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