David Cay Johnston Posts

Already Rampant Cheating on Gift and Estate Taxes Encouraged

Putin's invasion points to a serious issue we're completely ignoring.

Trump Era’s $1 Fines Against Banks Replaced by Real Enforcement

Folks who make at least $100,000 per day would bear 86% of the cost of Biden’s human infrastructure plan.

First Indication that Weisselberg Indictment Affects Trump Organization Operations

Just 76,518 votes were the difference between Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the White House.

The economic carnage from Trump’s incompetent and malicious response to the coronavirus has been concentrated in poor and minority neighborhoods.

America is entering a very dangerous time. For his next 11 weeks in office, Donald Trump will be in a position to exact revenge.

Ex-fixer Michael Cohen says ‘profoundly immoral’ presidential poseur labels Christianity ‘bullshit’ and is consumed by a ‘lust for wealth’

Trump’s policy is to fight market forces with the subtle subsidy of not making oil and gas companies clean up after themselves. That stinks up the economy and the environment.

The Roberts Court Gives Trump a Quick Political Victory While It Shields His Tax Returns Well into the Future

Trump and his staff of unqualified family and equally unqualified sycophants are naïve and gullible, their rank incompetence unwittingly putting our national security in jeopardy.

The numbers are in - Trump’s coronavirus response has been great for corporations and the rich, and not so good for you.

Suspending Social Security and Medicare taxes will save top earners $3 billion a month.

Trump is nothing if not consistently inconsistent except for one thing: using his powers to make sure workers don’t share in economic growth.

With each day, Pelosi’s savvy political strategy grows clearer, even as she gets much too little credit.

The Murdochs, Who Built Up Trump, May Now Be Ready to Bring Him Down

He Wants the Next Global Summit at His Financially Troubled Miami Resort. ‘What’s an Emoluments Clause?’

Democrats should create their own game, by goading Donald. He doesn’t know how to respond to a smart one-liner, a well-crafted joke, a disarming parody.

There’s a simple way to force the 1% to pay up and make the tax system fairer to everyone