GARY M. FEINMAN – If democracies today are to restore trust, widen participation, and check concentrated power, the historical lesson is unambiguous: they need to rebuild and evenly implement inclusive tax systems. That means not only who pays but also how revenues are collected, how transparently they are managed, and how visibly they return to the public in the form of shared opportunities, services, and goods.
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History Repudiates Three Key Myths About Human Societies
GARY M. FEINMAN – The New Gilded Age, wars along the Russian border, a global pandemic, battles for women’s rights, even the Titanic: history does rhyme with the present. Yet as former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert once observed: “If history tells us anything, it’s that we never learn from history.”