Apricot variety Donald Trump plans to unveil his bold new economic agenda in a speech today. Many of the worst possible policies, together at last!

Will legalizing weed increase the probability that people smoke weed? Yes. Duh. But it could still be a great idea, with the right taxe$$$.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz yesterday called Apple’s offshore tax(-evasion) practices “a fraud,” which is very rude to Tim Cook who seems like such a nice man.

Life is not all about sitting around “getting high” and daydreaming about saving the world and having hot sex at the same time. Life is about tax policy—that’s where the action is.

A new report from Moody’s says that major U.S. companies are sitting on as much as $1.2 trillion in cash held overseas—hey, that’s enough to pay our national credit card bill!

In a move sure to strike terror into the heart of the Republican donor class, Donald Trump said this weekend he’d be willing to raise taxes on the wealthy. Then again, maybe nobody really cares, because last fall he said he’d lower taxes for everyone.

Following a push by the state of Connecticut to tax Yale University, New Jersey residents are pushing to tax Princeton University as well. Yeah. Pay up, motherfuckers.

Tax Day is Monday, America. I hope you filed your return already, and can spend the weekend enjoying the sunny weather, unstressed about your civic obligation to fill government coffers. If you haven’t, don’t worry: you still have three days. A word of advice, however: don’t file with Liberty Tax Services, which has…

Sin taxes, which states levy on things like cigarettes and booze and gambling, are popular with just about everyone. So why the fuck haven’t we established the single smartest sin tax of all?

According to a new report from the anti-poverty charity Oxfam, systemic abuse of the global tax system has allowed an “opaque and secretive network” of 1,608 subsidiaries owned by American corporations like Apple and General Electric to hide $1.4 trillion in offshore tax havens.

The Panama Papers offer a good opportunity to say: Hey, how much is all this offshore tax haven bullshit costing the American public. According to one estimate: a shitload, of money.

Yale University is sitting on an endowment worth $25.6 billion. The state of Connecticut, on the other hand, is pretty broke. Now, Connecticut wants to tax Yale’s endowment. This could be more revolutionary than it sounds.

Despite being the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump’s campaign is predicated on being non-traditional and non-presidential. So it’s perhaps no surprise that today he forcefully resisted a call to reveal any of his tax returns, which is a routine part of the election process.

As the presidential election progresses, Wall Street grows increasingly fearful that the “radical” economic proposals of Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump could become a reality. They might want to worry about the “mainstream” candidates as well.

Last month, the Internal Revenue Service filed a federal tax lien against Martin Shkreli, alleging that he owes the government quite a bit of money—$4,628,928.55, to be precise.

Wow, the price of oil is still low as hell. Oil company earnings are terrible. Consumer prices at the pump are super cheap. Oh, that remind me, you know what we could use right now?

Speaker of the House and noted fiscal conservative Paul Ryan has been livestreaming the view from his office all day and into the night. He also, apparently, forgot to turn off his lamp.

Though we wish it were not so, America has a two-party political system. Both parties share many of the same bad qualities. But one is unique, in that it is a machine made of fraud.

America! The greatest country in the world—where our robust free market system ensures that our economic growth is the envy of all lesser nations! Right?

The IRS—the department that collects all the money that funds everything the U.S. government wants to do—is being slowly gutted. What could go wrong?