The hand-written scrawls in the margins of the hastily written 500-page Senate tax bill had barely dried when lawmakers began to reveal the true motivation behind their rush to fundamentally overhaul the nation’s tax code.

But so far, Republican leaders have demonstrated that, for them, the only voices that matter in this debate are those that fund their campaigns.

ITEP has analyzed each of the tax proposals advanced by the House and Senate in recent weeks. While some details have changed, the bottom line is the same: The plans would disproportionately benefit corporations and the wealthy. The Senate tax plan ITEP’s latest analysis examined the proposal that passed the Senate Finance Committee on Nov. […]

Poorest 20 percent would receive the biggest tax hike A 50-state analysis of the tax plan that passed the Senate Finance Committee finds that the bottom 60 percent of households overall would face a tax hike in the later years of the plan, while the richest 1 percent, corporations, and foreign investors would continue to […]

Dr. Harris knows that the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has determined that 31 percent of middle class Marylanders will pay substantially higher taxes under this bill. The elimination of deductions for state and local taxes make this bill onerous for “blue states” like Maryland. Dr. Harris also knows that elimination of personal exemptions […]

For months, Speaker Paul Ryan has cited working people’s “economic anxiety” as a reason to push through tax reform. While the speaker has correctly diagnosed a defining social issue of our time, he and other Republican leaders continue to focus on a top-down remedy that will only make this problem worse.