GOP Tax 'Shell Game'
'"These aren't pro-growth policies - they're shell games that reward the wealthiest Americans at the expense of everyone else.'Danny Kanner for the Democratic Governors Assn.New York...
View ArticleReality of Health Costs - Health-Care Deduction Huge, but What's the Return?
Beyond the Chart: Sure, Health-Care Deduction Huge, but What's the Return? [Neal Soss' much-discussed chart of the United States' 20 largest "tax expenditures" tells us nothing about the value in...
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The Great Tax-Cut Experiment Has cutting tax rates for the rich helped the...
Dramatic cuts in tax rates have not led to an acceleration in economic growth, investment, or productivity.Since the late 1970s, during the Carter Administration, conservative economists have been...
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Growth of Income Inequality Blocks Recovery
Growing income inequality—approaching now obscene levels—is not simply a ‘moral outrage’. It not only represents a gross violation of historically held American values or reasonable equality for all....
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Making Tax Fair Would Guarantee Social Security for Future Generations
Today, some people believe that Social Security will not be there for them even though there are equitable solutions that will fully fund Social Security for the foreseeable future. In planning for the...
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If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?
For many multinational corporations, the love of profit trumps loyalty to country.Go offshore young man and avoid paying taxes. Plunder at will in those foreign lands, and if you get in trouble, Uncle...
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In the South and West, a Tax on Being Poor
These regional disparities go back to Reconstruction, when Southern Republicans increased property taxes on defeated white landowners and former slaveholders to pay for the first public services —...
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Bipartisan Push to Scrap Medical Device Tax Is a Cautionary Tale
As the medical device tax saga shows, cutting loopholes is really hard to do in practice. They were likely put there to benefit specific industries, which can often be quite powerful and influence even...
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Why We Tax: A Timely Reminder for Tax Day
Media darling Rand Paul is doing his best to end progressive taxation in America. Randolph Paul, over a half-century ago, helped make progressive taxation a prime building block for America’s middle...
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Being Rich is Taxing
April 15, 2013Pat Bagleycaglehttp://media.cagle.com/53/2013/04/12/130181_600.jpgApril 15, 2013taxesthe rich
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Dodging Corporate Taxes - Big Time
That $9.2 billion tax bill that Apple dodged in cooking up a scheme this week to finance a $55 billion stock buyback for its shareholders would have been enough to make unnecessary all of the major...
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Big Oil's (Taxpayer Subsidized) Big Profits
Gas prices are down nearly 35 cents from last year, yet this has had virtually no impact on this year’s first quarter profits of the big oil companies. Here’s an example of how government subsidies...
View ArticleEveryone But Cheney and Rumsfeld
May 17, 2013The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on FacebookDonald Rumsfeld accuses the Obama administration of promoting a...
View ArticleApple Antics
'In addition to those standard multinational tactics, Apple established at the apex of its offshore network an offshore holding company that it says is not tax resident in any nation. That subsidiary,...
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A Little Bite
May 23, 2013Tony Authuclickhttp://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/ta/2013/ta130522.gifMay 23, 2013Appletaxes
View ArticleMichele Bachmann's Last Term
June 7, 2013The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video ArchiveMichele Bachmann announces her retirement in a web video recorded at the Sears portrait...
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Revenue Blues: The Case for Higher Taxes
There is no conceivable benchmark—in our past, or in comparison to our international peers—by which one could sustain the argument that we are taxed too much, or “taxed enough already.”The tempest...
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We're Taxing the Rich... and So Can You
Despite the odds, competing measures, and conventional wisdom that says voters will not approve tax hikes, unions and community groups built a successful campaign to pass a tax hike for California's...
View ArticleThe Insanity of Not Having a Financial Transaction Tax
Chicago-area trading alone would pay the entire federal education bill. The logic for the tax is indisputable:-- 1. Financial industry speculation devastated middle-class homeowner wealth. -- 2. U.S....
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Let's Talk About Health Care and I Don't Mean the ACA
When it comes to health care, it's easy to get into a debate for or against Obamacare. But we nurses see the world through a different lens: our patients. Good health care is a fundamental resource...
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