Category: Tax Policy
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Tax incentives to encourage future generations of qualified teachers
Unfortunately, teaching is one of the most thankless professions. Low pay, high student to teach ratio, and lack of resources plague school districts across the country. In order to encourage qualified people to enter the field of K-12 education: Federal Tax break for teachers (with minimum of bachelors degree) and to teaching assistants who are…
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Encourage real estate developers to focus on affordable homes in order to expand home ownership
The United States has an extreme shortage of starter homes. Real estate developers have essentially abandoned the market for starter homes, preferring to build more expensive, more profitable homes instead. This is an area where tax policy can be used to “guide” developers in a new direction, in the form of providing a tax break…
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Natural Resources on Federal Lands belong to the people
The United States has abundant natural resources which corporations have been able to exploit for their own benefit for far too long. They pay the US tax payers a pittance for the resources they extract, while charging those same tax payers more and more for their products. This needs to be addressed – the royalties…
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Eliminate financial benefit of stock buybacks
Until 1982, stock buybacks were actually illegal, considered a form of market manipulation, as companies could use cash on their balance sheets to support their stock price. Today, buybacks are viewed as a “tax-efficient method of returning value to shareholders”. Stock buybacks are nothing but financial engineering meant to return value to shareholders without causing…
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Make Corporations finance the cost of paying their employees subsistence wages
Too many corporations are able to operate without paying for the true cost of the labor they employ. They pay their workers peanuts or strategically schedule them for just enough hours to remain below the full-time threshold, and therefore exempt from benefits. This behavior is awful for the employees who may need to work multiple…