Op/Ed

Community Forum: Ideas for reducing the tax burden

Taxes have a bad rap. In part, this is because we never discuss who pays which taxes. Taxes have gone up for working people while wealthier people have gotten tax cuts. But taxes exist for important reasons, and we must make our tax system more fair and decrease the burden on everyday people.

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