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The Death Of The Income Tax (Or, The Rise Of America’S Universal Wage Tax), Edward J. Mccaffery Oct 2000

The Death Of The Income Tax (Or, The Rise Of America’S Universal Wage Tax), Edward J. Mccaffery

Indiana Law Journal

The killing of the income tax has not been open and notorious: such is not the style of contemporary politics. As with other markers of progressive social policy—the promises of universal health care, Obamacare, come to mind6—the income tax is dying a death by stealth, albeit stealth played out in plain view. The plot lines of the tragedy are apparent. The individual “income” tax has been split in two. One tax, for the masses, is a simple, increasingly formless wage tax. This wage/income tax adds higher brackets onto the payroll tax, the model toward which the wage/income tax aims, to …


Twins At Birth: Civil Rights And The Role Of The Solicitor General, Seth P. Waxman Oct 2000

Twins At Birth: Civil Rights And The Role Of The Solicitor General, Seth P. Waxman

Indiana Law Journal

This is the text of a lecture sponsored by the Indiana Supreme Court and delivered at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington on February 3, 2000.