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How to Make Trump and the Wealthy Pay Their Taxes
Considering that a Democratic-controlled House Ways and Usually means Committee released five decades of Donald Trump’s tax returns, the Republicans’ farcical struggle to elect a new Speaker of the Home has distracted attention from two urgent thoughts that the contents of the returns lifted: How can we rework the U.S. tax procedure to prevent Trump and other rich tax cheats from continuing to make a mockery of it? And, going over and above the personal situation, egregious as it is, how can we use what we have learned to make the tax program fairer? Immediately after examining many years of Trump’s returns and talking with independent tax gurus, I am…

