Tax Foundation

The Tax Foundation is a non-partisan wingnut (un)think tank which publishes slanted economic papers about politically charged issues to push a libertarian perspective. The Foundation was founded by and for corporate interests by its own admission,Tax Foundation Annual Dinner 2013 and advocates theories about the legality of taxation,Tax Foundation Annual Report, 2014 and other neoconservative talking points. Another major think tank that studies taxes, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) heavily critized one of their reports, claiming that its “[f]igures do not represent typical households’ tax burdens” and that "The Tax Foundation report calculates the average tax rate by measuring tax revenues as a share of the economy, but in a country with progressive tax system like that of the United States, only upper-income households pay federal tax at rates that are equal to or above federal revenues as a share of the economy." As a result, 80% of the American households paid a smaller share of their income in federal taxes in 2013 (the year of the report) than the Tax Foundation’s average tax rate.Tax Foundation Figures Do Not Represent Typical Households’ Tax Burdens The Tax Foundation was also criticized by Forbes contributor Peter J Reilly during the 2016 US presidential campaign. According to Reilly, their model was more of a counterfactual than a forecast of what would happen if Bernie Sanders was elected that year and implemented his health care program. Reilly also criticized the TF for not incorporating much from the new field of on their study. Reilly made clear however that he “really like what the Tax Foundation does, but I tend not to like too much what some people do with what the Tax Foundation does.”Is Tax Foundation Unfair To Bernie Sanders?
The Tax Foundation is heavily bankrolled by the Koch Brothers, who donated $545,000 through the Claude R. Lambe Foundation,Contributions of the Claude R. Lambe Foundation a Koch owned "charity"Who is this Claude R. Lambe? which also funded similar (un)think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, and Americans for Prosperity before it was dismantled in 2013.Claude R. Lambe Charitable FoundationOne of the Koch Family-Controlled Foundations Has Quietly Folded Not to be left out, the Charles G. Koch Foundation managed to cough up another $182,100 to support the Foundation's economic research.Contributions of the Charles G. Koch Foundation The Charles Koch Institute shamelessly lists the Tax Foundation as a "partner organization", along with other (un)think tanks.Charles Koch Institute - Partner Organizations
Other upstanding citizens who contribute to the Tax Foundation include ExxonMobile,ExxonSecrets Factsheet: The Tax Foundation PepsiCo,Senate Lobbying Contribution Report - PepsiCo General Electric,Senate Lobbying Contribution Report - General Electric Hewlett-Packard,Senate Lobbying Contribution Report - Hewlitt-Packard and General Motors.Senate Lobbying Contribution Report - General Motors The Tax Foundation receives 40% of its funding from corporate sponsors, and an additional 42% from "philanthropic foundations" like the Koch groups above, providing obedient cranks with job security. Tax Foundation Annual Reports and Funding 
From its website:
So much for non-partisan.
==External links==
*The Tax Foundation
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