Taxes and the Wealthy - NYTimes.com
This piece argues that while tax rate changes from 1979 to 2005 cannot fully explain rising income inequality, they have significantly amplified it rather than counteracted it, with the wealthy—particularly the very rich—receiving disproportionate tax relief relative to their income gains. The author uses CBO data to refute the claim that the rich are overtaxed, showing instead that tax policy has actively reinforced growing after-tax inequality over this period.