Apr 17, 2017 ... This is one of the great — and often overlooked — tragedies of our tax code:  Congress spends billions of dollars each year on a tax program that is making  wealth inequality worse. According to research by the Corporation for Enterprise  Development (CFED), every year the federal government spends ...
Jul 25, 2017 ... In May 2012, TomDispatch featured a piece by Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer , both then analysts at the National Priorities Project, headlined “War Pay: The  Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget.” The two of them ran through the  figures for the cumulative annual budget for what we still mysteriously ...
Sep 3, 2017 ... We can reduce and reform the over $1.5 trillion in yearly tax breaks (there has  been some encouraging talk from the White House about doing this); we can  create a new revenue stream (I favor a carbon for corporate tax trade) or we can  cut spending. One of the biggest ironies of this tax cut versus tax ...
Dec 17, 2015 ... Budget austerity takes a back seat as the House passes nearly $700 billion in  unpaid-for tax cuts. ... Congress' half-trillion-dollar spending binge. Budget  austerity takes a .... And this year, Republicans struck a deal with Democrats:  Make some of our tax breaks permanent, and we'll do the same for yours.
Jul 16, 2017 ... An analysis of IRS data by the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) shows that  individuals and businesses spend about 6.1 billion hours a year complying with  tax-filing requirements. “If tax compliance were an industry, it would be one of the  largest in the United States,” the report says. “To consume 6.1 billion ...
We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation.