Sandy Brian Hager

Jan 23, 2024 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Reuven Avi-Yonah |Emily DiVito |Niko Lusiani |Sandy Brian Hager

IntroductionThe United States corporate income tax has been a force for over a century, but in just the last few years it has become one of the most hot-button issues in US politics. The most recent tax reform effort, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), provided a dramatic cut in the corporate tax rate, the elimination of its graduated nature, and many other provisions favoring large corporations and business entities.

Dec 14, 2023 | rooseveltinstitute.org | Sandy Brian Hager |Joseph Kenneth Baines

After decades of policy choices privileging ever-larger corporate behemoths, our economy is now ruled by a small clique of super-sized, dominant firms. These corporations have concentrated markets to their liking, resulting in few checks and balances that push back against these firms hiking prices, while simultaneously depressing wages and good jobs, decreasing productivity and innovation, embrittling supply chains, and exacerbating racial injustice.