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Gas tax [Proposition D] on MO ballot: I voted yes before I knew what I was doing

October 30, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Missouri region, St. Louis, Taxes, Transportation, Voting/Elections, Widgets: 2018 Missouri election One comment

Proposition D on Missouri’s 2018 midterm ballot asks voters whether to increase the tax on a gallon of gas. Should you vote for it? 

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The truth about the estate tax: You’re probably not going to have to pay it

November 21, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Republicans, Taxes Leave a comment

The latest incarnation of a Republican tax “plan” includes repealing the estate tax. Republicans love to give it an evil connotation by referring to

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NBC Nightly News

NBC Nightly News grossly misses fairness and balance

April 28, 2017 Arthur Lieber ACA/Obamacare, Economy, Health care, Media, Social Sec/Medicare, Taxes, Trump Leave a comment

Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News, could not appear to be more affable and concerned about delivering “straight news.” After Brian Williams bloviated

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With Trump, is there a line between business and government?

December 13, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Environment, Good government, Government, Justice, Labor and unions, Taxes Leave a comment

The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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The United States of corporate welfare

December 12, 2016 Bobbi Clemons Capitalism, Corporations, Taxes, Trump, Widgets Leave a comment

Another day, another corporation receiving massive tax breaks by the government. Most recently, it was $7 million from the Trump/Pence administration to Carrier (owned

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Remember inflation? Let Trumponomics remind you

November 16, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Economy, Government, Infrastructure, Republican Brain, Republicans, Social Sec/Medicare, Taxes Leave a comment

It’s been perhaps a generation and a half since America experienced the pain of double-digit inflation. We don’t talk much about inflation these days,

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Legislative pickpockets: What 2016 right-wing laws cost MO taxpayers

May 26, 2016 Willy Kessler Government, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans, Taxes One comment

Paul Waldman described Donald Trump’s “flexibility” in regard to the right-wing gun culture as “a perfect expression of the larger Republican bargain, where the

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Kansas raises taxes…reluctantly and nastily

June 10, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Budget, Economy, Government, States, Taxes Leave a comment

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback [R]—who started the whole mess—knows it. The Republican dominated Kansas legislature—who gleefully made it happen—knows it, too. The radical, right-wing

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“We can’t afford it.” The untrue, anti-tax mantra of 21st century government

March 12, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik Budget, Good government, Ideas, Taxes Leave a comment

For the past 30 years, “We can’t afford it” has become the mantra of city councilmen, state legislators and even U.S. Congressional representatives. But

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Let the feds be tax collectors for all

March 2, 2015 Arthur Lieber Business, Federalism, Good government, Infrastructure, Missouri region, Taxes 3 comments

In the next few years, two of the biggest potential economic developments in the St. Louis metropolitan area may be a new stadium for

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