Josh Hoxie
Josh Hoxie directs the Project on Opportunity and Taxation at the Institute for Policy Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @JoshHoxie
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Views Thursday, June 14, 2018 Just How Rich are the Ultra Rich? Nearly seven years ago — I know, wow — the Occupy Wall Street movement began highlighting the divide between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent. Since then, it’s become common knowledge that income inequality in the United States is high. But there’s more to the story than just numbers... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 11, 2018 Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College For All in CA Decades of regressive tax cuts and subsequent budget cuts have undermined the rosy reality of higher education in California. Resulting tuition increases have shifted the cost of college on to students and their parents. Restoring Opportunity: Taxing Wealth to Fund College for All in California... Read more |
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Views Monday, April 02, 2018 Cable TV Ignores Inequality; Here’s How to Get Around It If you saw even a single Bernie Sanders speech during his insurgent 2016 presidential bid, or during his 30 years in public office prior, you know he’s worried about rising economic inequality. The big question he wants to know is, why aren’t you just as worried? The Vermont senator recently... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 07, 2018 While School Secretary Gets $1.50 per Week, Koch Brothers Get $27 Million per Week Love is in the air. Or so the marketers want us to believe, as Valentine’s Day ads sweep the nation into a frenzy of buying flowers, greeting cards, and confections to communicate our affection. Washington is less forthcoming with the adoration, especially for working people. You’re probably tired... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 19, 2018 Apple Avoided $40 Billion in Taxes. Now It Wants a Gold Star? The public relations spin doctors are working overtime at Apple this week. The tech giant just announced that it will pay $38 billion to the U.S. Treasury in taxes brought home from overseas—and “create” some 20,000 new jobs. It pledged to invest $350 billion in the U.S. over the next five years... Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 13, 2018 I Live in a ‘Shithole Country.’ It’s Called the United States It takes a level of pomposity inconceivable to most of us to describe another country as a “shithole.” It’s unfortunately just one more of the obnoxious, racist, and altogether absurd statements we’ve come to expect from President Donald Trump. If the president were to venture beyond the manicured... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 06, 2017 Everyone Hates This Tax Bill As the Trump tax cuts fly through Congress at breakneck speed, one has to wonder: What’s the big rush? Surely a body known for gridlock and deliberation would want to hold hearings, interview stakeholders, and gather public input before restructuring the world’s largest economy. Instead, the tax... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 09, 2017 The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Charles Dickens opened A Tale of Two Cities , perhaps his most famous tome, with the now iconic line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The book is set in London and Paris during the late 1700s, the lead up to the French Revolution. While revolution appears unlikely in the near... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 07, 2017 Tax Cuts for the Rich Help the Rich, Not You Soon you’re going to hear about taxes. You’ll see images of families flashing across your TV screen while a soothing narrator assures you that the tax plan being debated in Washington really is good for you. The newspapers you read, the social media apps you scroll through, the websites you... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 03, 2017 Don't Lie to Poor Kids About Why They're Poor Work hard and you’ll get ahead — that’s the mantra driven into young people across the country. But what happens when children born into poverty run face first into the crushing reality that the society they live in really isn’t that fair at all? "The United States leads the world in overall wealth... Read more |