{"id":124571,"date":"2021-04-16T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=187257"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T15:49:38","slug":"dorothy-a-brown-and-amy-hanauer-on-tax-unfairness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/16\/dorothy-a-brown-and-amy-hanauer-on-tax-unfairness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy A. Brown and Amy Hanauer on Tax Unfairness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week on CounterSpin<\/strong>: Taxes, the concept of taxation, does a lot of work in US public discourse, though the role is not consistent: When reporting on a wished-for social good, like universal healthcare or improved infrastructure, the \u201ccost to taxpayers\u201d is presented as central; \u201craising taxes\u201d is a synonym for increasing hardship on working people, and unironically offered as the reason those same people can\u2019t have nice things, like healthcare and infrastructure. At the same time, but on a different page, we read that corporations like Zoom<\/strong>, Amazon<\/strong> and Netflix<\/strong> are super-successful, exemplary\u2014what magic do they have to earn themselves such fortune?\u2014and, oh yeah, they pay zero or near zero federal tax on their profits, but that\u2019s complicated, and sort of clever? And anyway legal, so whaddya gonna do? Except, remember that you can\u2019t have nice things because: taxes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll talk today with two people who, while recognizing that it\u2019s not the sole source of inequality, have thoughts about what we can<\/i> do about blatant, enduring and powerful unfairness in US tax policy.<\/p>\n

Dorothy A. Brown teaches tax policy as Asa Griggs Candler professor of law at Emory University School of Law. She\u2019s author of the new book<\/a>, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans\u2014and How We Can Fix It<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Amy Hanauer is executive director at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy<\/a> and Citizens for Tax Justice<\/a>. They\u2019ve been tracking corporate<\/i> tax avoidance and its societal impact for decades.<\/p>\n