- Ezra Klein
- Columnist
Ezra Klein is a columnist at the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to MSNBC. His work focuses on domestic and economic policymaking, as well as the political system that’s constantly screwing it up. He’s appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill Maher, The McLaughlin Report, the Colbert Report, and many more. He really likes graphs.
One reason to keep taxing corporate income
If you don't tax corporate income, then you don't tax the earnings until they're released to shareholders.
Full text: Obama's terror speech
President Obama is giving a major speech at the National Defense University today on the future of the fight against terror. Here's the text.
Let's get rid of corporate taxes
And let's replace it with new taxes on capital gains and dividend income, a cap on deductions for the affluent, and a progressively-structured carbon tax.
Bernanke lashes Congress
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke thinks Congress is doing quite a lot wrong. He headed to the Hill on Wednesday to present them with an itemized list.
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