1.1The Rise of Inequality in the United States, 1978–2018
1.2The US Tax System: A Giant Flat Tax That Becomes Regressive at the Top
1.3The US Flat Tax: Composition by Type of Tax
1.4US Billionaires Now Pay Lower Tax Rates Than the Working Class
2.1When the United States Taxed High Incomes at More Than 90%
2.2The Average Tax Rate for the Rich under Eisenhower? 55%
2.3The Key Role of the Corporate Tax for the Wealthy
3.1The Rise of Tax Evasion among the Wealthy
3.2“The Poor Evade, the Rich Avoid” . . . or Vice Versa?
4.1The Slow Agony of the Corporate Tax
4.2Paper Profits Are Moving to Tax Havens; Real Activity Less So
5.1The Collapse of Capital Taxation
5.2The Rise of Labor Taxation
5.3The Upsurge in US Wealth Inequality
5.4Capital Taxation and Capital Accumulation
6.1The Rise of Multinational Profits
7.1When America Taxed the Rich Heavily
7.2One Possible Objective: Returning to the Tax Progressivity of the Truman-Eisenhower Era
7.3The Wealth Tax: A Key Ingredient for a Progressive Tax System
8.1From a Rising Tide That Lifts All Boats to One That Lifts All Yachts
8.2The Plight of the American Working Class
8.3A Wealth Tax to Limit the Rise of Inequality . . . or De-Concentrate Wealth?
9.1The US Tax System: Flat . . . or Massively Regressive?
9.2Funding the Social State of the Twenty-First Century
9.3A Progressive Tax System for the Twenty-First Century