Chye-Ching Huang

Repatriated cash overwhelmingly ends up in shareholders’ pockets, not in investments in factories and the like. 

The Senate bill raises taxes on millions of low- and middle-income households and raises the number of Americans without health insurance by an estimated 13 million.

When all the bill’s individual income tax provisions are in place, about 79 million households with incomes below $200,000 would either lose or gain little from the Senate bill

If we consider the impact of the bill’s mandate repeal, we estimate that those in the top 1 percent would receive tax benefits of $40 billion, even as those in the bottom 99 percent would see losses of $30 billion.

A combination of the speed of their process and intentional choices by leadership has meant that information that would be helpful in evaluating the legislation has not been available, for either the public or for legislators considering the bill.

Proposals contained in the Senate version of reform amount to a trade-off that provides corporate tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, at the cost of health coverage for 13 million people and premium increases for millions more

Even today, only the largest 0.2 percent estates face the tax; the other 99.8 percent face no estate tax at all.

Kansas's 2012 tax plan offers a blueprint of a proposal that heavily favored the rich—and ultimately failed