US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: Forbes
Author: Christopher Helman
26 Jul 2016
What America’s 25 Most Profitable Companies Pay In Taxes
Taxes, fees, tarrifs, tolls, levies, bribes, tithes, tributes. Whatever we called them, taxes have been an unfortunate reality of life ever since the biggest monkey decided he wanted a piece of the smaller monkeys’ lunch. From that earliest protection racket, taxes have only gotten more codified and
Publisher: Fortune
Author: Laura Davison
9 May 2019
Trump Used the Same Tax Breaks as Amazon to Drastically Reduce His Own IRS Bill
President Donald Trump complains that large corporations, such as Amazon.com Inc., are shirking their tax responsibilities. Yet for at least a decade, Trump paid none or very little in federal income taxes by exploiting some of the same generous tax breaks that the online retail giant and others have used to reduce IRS bills.
Publisher: Vox
Author: Matthew Yglesias
1 Feb 2017
After meeting with pharma lobbyists, Trump drops promise to negotiate drug prices
A lot happened in the 2016 campaign, but one of the things Donald Trump did to win the election was shift to the left on a number of key issues — promising to avoid cuts in Social Security and Medicare benefits and adopting a longstanding Democratic pledge to let Medicare negotiate bulk discounts in the price it pays for prescription drugs.