Election

See our Action Tools to help you evaluate tax proposals elected officials are making at the state and federal levels.
February 13, 2009

Trying to figure out how much an elected official's proposals fit with your values can be challenging. That's why we developed a valuable action tool to help you evaluate the fairness of tax proposals.

The Action Tool contains key progressive tax principles and sample questions to use when researching candidates' positions and for asking candidates directly. Using the Action Tool could influence elected officials' positions and increase public support for fair taxation.
February 13, 2009

The presidential campaign trail is coming to an end just as the country sputters into an economic ditch. In a pair of dueling Wall Street Journal essays today, McCain rails against Obama's proposed tax increases for the wealthy, while Obama advocates leveling out the tax burden so that the wealthy pay more while middle-income families get a cut. And liberal and conservative commentators have polarized the debate into an epic battle of liberal versus conservative economic philosophies. Newsday. November 3, 2008

Our new position paper exposes key aspects that the major party Presidential candidates missed about what’s wrong with our economy. As a result they missed fundamental changes that are needed. October 30, 2008

Thomas Friedman slams Sarah Palin's view that taxes are unpatriotic and says
that helping to fund our government is quite patriotic. International Herald Tribune.

October 8, 2008.

October 8, 2008

UFE member Michael Beer wrote an article that focuses on the differences between the tax policies of the two main presidential candidates. Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC. August 6, 2008

Tax policy is a key method for addressing economic inequities. But it can be difficult to evaluate a candidate's position on taxes. That's why we created these Action Tools, ways to use the Action Tools, and a space for you to tell us how you used them.

July 24, 2008

Trying to figure out how much a candidate's proposals fit with your values can be challenging. That's why we developed a valuable action tool to help you evaluate the fairness of tax proposals.

The Action Tool contains key progressive tax principles and sample questions to use when researching candidates' positions and for asking candidates directly. Using the Action Tool could influence candidates' positions and increase public support for fair taxation.
July 23, 2008

From UFE's April 2008 E-News

With the economy making voters nervous, candidates for public office are frantically crafting proposals and taking economic positions that include tax policy. This is great news, because in our view one of tax policy's most important functions is to address economic inequality.

May 27, 2008

Candidates' Positions on Trade Agreements

To help voters understand where candidates stand on trade agreements, the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign (IFTC) extracted statements from responses to its set of principles (PDF) by major Democratic* candidates on the following topics:

January 30, 2008