Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
The Alternative Minimum Tax was created to prevent wealthy families from evading taxes through shelters. Yet, without congressional action, the number of individuals subject to the AMT will jump to 20.5 million in 2006, from 3.8 million in 2005. Now a group of Senators is calling for it’s repeal. A conversation on the tenacious history and the future of the Alternative Minimum Tax.
Guests
- Len Burman Senior Fellow, Urban Institute; Co-Director of Urban/Brookings the Tax Policy Center; Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
- Chuck Grassley U.S. Senator (R-Iowa); Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
- Dan Mitchell Senior Fellow, Heritage Foundation
- Robert S. McIntyre Director, Citizens for Tax Justice; contributing editor for The American Prospect
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