Bob Lord

Bob has mostly wound down his 39-year career as a tax and business lawyer (with a 1-year interruption to run for Congress in 2008 (CD3), when he tried to unseat John Shadegg. Bob now serves as the senior advisor on tax policy for the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy Americans who believe the light taxation of America's rich is destabilizing our democracy, and as an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. Bob has been writing for Blog For Arizona since late 2011, concentrating mostly on federal issues, with an occasional foray into Arizona state politics.

Senate tax plan would penalize Mormon families

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President Trump has called his fellow Republican and our U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake a “non-factor” in the Senate. But Flake and his colleague Sen. John McCain have the chance to be big factors in the defeat of the recently released Senate tax plan. That plan would hurt many working families, but some of the worst … Read more

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

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If the Trump-GOP tax plan doesn’t stink, why are they lying about the cost?

House Republicans and Donald Trump are ballyhooing the wonders of their new tax plan. It’s called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” which we’re told will mean “More Jobs, Fairer Taxes, and Bigger Paychecks.”

Hallelujah! We can see the Promised Land!

But before we pop the champagne corks, let’s double-check the sticker price: $1.5 trillion over the next decade. That’s just shy of $5,000 for every man, woman and child in America. For a nation over $20 trillion in debt, that seems pricey.

But that’s only the beginning. The deeper costs of their tax plan are so large and so obvious that the failure of Republican leaders to disclose them is, for all practical purposes, a lie.

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BfAZ Readers: Please Sign on to My Petition to Senator Flake

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Readers: I’ve started a petition addressed to Senator Flake regarding the Senate Tax Plan. I’ll start with the first few paragraphs here, followed by a link to read the rest and sign. Dear Senator Flake: Your political beliefs do not line up with those of all your constituents. Many of us disagree with your votes … Read more

The Classic Canard behind the GOP Tax Cut for America’s Rich

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Cheerleaders for grand fortune conveniently ignore all context when they trumpet the statistics on the share of federal income taxes that rich people pay. Is America’s tax code “unfair” to America’s rich? The rich — and our elected leaders who cater to them — desperately want us to believe that deep pockets pay far more … Read more