Congress fiddles while Treasury burns
No action on bill that would stop corporations that try to avoid taxes by shirking their American citizenship.
Lobbying America
Benjamin Waterhouse shows how business organizations woke up in the 1970s and changed American politics (and yes, there is at least one smoke-filled room).
Stopping tax avoidance without causing “flight”
Would ending deferral on overseas profits have dangerous consequences, like making U.S. corporations uncompetitive or driving them to move their headquarters’ overseas? Remapping Debate’s inquiries have found that such concerns appear to be overstated, and that the U.S. has a range of policy options that could mitigate or nullify those effects.
Invisible hands
A discussion with Kim Phillips-Fein, author of a book that traces the conservative movement in the U.S. as it slowly regrouped in the aftermath of the passage of the New Deal.
Stopping tax avoidance without causing “flight”
If the U.S. barred companies from deferring taxes on overseas profits, the sky, it turns out, would not fall.
Citizens without obligations?
Very few American-based corporations we contacted acknowledged any national obligations, suggesting a clear disjunction between how individual and corporate citizenship is perceived.
