Bob Lord

Bob Lord is a veteran tax lawyer who practices and blogs in Phoenix, Arizona. He’s an associate fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. 

The Oligarchy Has Arrived and Congress Needs to Take Notice…and Act

The First Trillionaire: No Cause for Celebration

Workers, Machines, and ‘Bonus Depreciation’

Why Do Billionaires Love Owning Newspapers?

It’s Time to End the Capital Gains Rate Giveaway

Closing the Tax Loopholes America’s Rich Love to Exploit

How to Fix America’s Badly Broken System for Taxing Its Richest

A Perfect Storm Has Elon Musk Paying $11 Billion in Tax

American Tax Policy in the Age of Trillionaires

Subway’s Sandwich Mogul Meets — and Beats — the IRS

How One Little-Known Loophole Fuels Toxic Dynastic Wealth

Our “Trillion-Dollar Seven”: Can We Summon the Courage to Tax Them?

Taxing Lifetime Gains Serves Different Fairness Goal Than Estate Tax

Peter Thiel’s $5 Billion Roth IRA: Only the Size is News

The Phantom Tax Threat

The Trillion Dollar SUV

STEP Act: The Critical First Blow to Millionaire Income Tax Avoidance

The Simple Rules of Wealth Inequality

America’s Future: Trillionaire Trust Fund Babies?

Inequality in America: Far Beyond Extreme

Welcome to Hectobillionaire Land

The U-Turn That Made America Staggeringly Unequal

Health Care and “Head Taxes”: an Unhealthy Combination

There’s Plenty of Wealth to Go Around, But It Doesn’t

The Vanishing Wealth of Black America

Innovation Used to Benefit Workers. Can It Again?

Men: We’ve Heard About Assaults, Speak Out About Them

America 2018: More Gilded Than America 1918

How to Level the Playing Field for Workers in a Time of Waning Union Power

Congress Made It Harder to Give Teachers Raises

Just How Unequal Are America’s Major Corporations?

Trump’s Tax Plan Will Cost a Lot More Than Advertised

Trump’s Tax Plan: a Billion or Three for Guys Like Him

Inequality Will Increase Until There’s a Revolution