How Tax Policy Can Curb Monopoly Power
“[T]he current tax rules—which exacerbate corporate consolidation—are not natural or necessary. They are in fact long due for a rethink and a rewrite,” Roosevelt’s Niko Lusiani writes in the introduction to “Tax and Monopoly Focus.”
Published this week by the Balanced Economy Project, the Tax Justice Network, and the Roosevelt Institute, the essay collection explores the role our tax code can play as an anti-monopoly tool, and includes a wealth tax piece by Lusiani and Emily DiVito.
“Just as today’s tax system contributes to corporate consolidation, so . . . too can our tax policies help restructure the economy to disrupt concentrated economic power and drive a more dynamic, multiplayer economy,” Lusiani writes.
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