The Tax Foundation campaigns for "tax simplification", i.e. the eradication of taxes.
It was conceived in 1935 by a group of businessmen at the University Club in New York, including:
- Alfred P. Sloan, General Motors Corporation chairman
- Donaldson Brown, General Motors Corporation financial vice president
- William S. Farish, Standard Oil Company, President
- Lewis H. Brown, President of the Johns-Manville Corporation
Its first chairman was Lewis H. Brown.
The major public-facing campaign of the Tax Foundation is its annual Tax Freedom Day. Each year since 1993, the Tax Foundation has claimed that the average American's tax burden has reached a new record high, and that "Tax Freedom Day" (when the average person has worked through their tax burden) occurs later in the year.
Funding
The Tax Foundation is funded by the usual right-wing foundations, such as the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Earhart Foundation.
Personnel
- Scott A. Hodge, executive director
- William Ahern, Director of Communications
- Julie Burden, Director of Development
References
- Scott A. Hodge, Celebrating Our 65th Year, Tax Features (Tax Foundation newsletter), September 2002
- http://www.cbpp.org/5-10-99tax2.htm