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By Frank Clemente, Executive Director of Americans for Tax Fairness On behalf of Americans for Tax Fairness and its coalition of more than 400 endorsing organizations, I write to submit testimony for the record for the committee hearing on Tuesday, February 11— “The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax.” We commend the committee for having this hearing. […]

In response to President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget detailing his tax and spending priorities for the next 10 years, Americans for Tax Fairness executive director Frank Clemente issued the following statement: “For the fourth year in a row, President Trump’s budget wants to take from working families in order to give to the wealthy. […]

House Panel Urged to Spotlight Puny Raises, Slow Growth, Collapsing Investment from Corporate Cuts Benefitting Huge Firms While Losing a Fortune in Federal Revenue Corporate tax cuts at the center of 2017’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) have failed to deliver the boost to workers and the economy promised by its Republican backers two […]

The Honorable Richard E. Neal Chairman, House Committee on Ways & Means U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable John Lewis Chairman, Oversight Subcommittee House Committee on Ways & Means U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Mike Thompson Chairman, Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures House Committee on Ways & Means […]

Families Struggle as Tax Cuts Mostly for Wealthy & Corporations Failed to Deliver for Workers—Yet Trump Wants More Cuts, Hiking Debt & Threatening Services Judging by past speeches and his Twitter feed, President Trump will use his 2020 State of the Union address to boast about the state of the economy and give a lot […]

Billionaire Candidate’s Tax Returns Show Surtax Would Require Rich Like Him to Pay Much Fairer Share of Taxes Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire Tom Steyer, an advocate of higher taxes on the rich, would have owed an additional $136 million in federal income taxes had the Millionaires Surtax recently introduced in Congress been in place […]

In a televised interview early today, President Trump, when asked about “entitlement” programs, said he would “take a look at” so-called “entitlement” programs later this year and called it “the easiest of all things, if you look.” If there was any confusion about what that means, Trump in answer to a question acknowledged he “was […]

Moderates in Democratic presidential field offer fiscal plans many times the size of Clinton’s in 2016

The opinion piece below by Frank Clemente originally appeared in the Des Moines Register on January 9, 2019. As Democrats gather for the final presidential debate before the Iowa caucuses, among all the worrying daily news there’s a hopeful long-term development. The candidates and their Democratic colleagues in Congress have finally and fully rejected trickle-down economics […]

The opinion piece below by Frank Clemente and Will Rice originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 1, 2019 on the second anniversary of when the Trump tax cuts took effect. President Trump’s radical Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which took effect Jan. 1, 2018, has now been around long enough for a fair […]