Is Buffett Rule A First Step Towards Tax Reform?

Len Burman, Forbes
Tue, 04/17/2012 - 6:19am

When the president first announced his Buffett Rule?that millionaires should pay at least 30 percent of their income in tax?in the State of the Union address in January, I had a strong sense of deja vu. ??It is another alternative minimum tax, and it?s provenance is very similar. ??Congress created a minimum tax back in ...

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