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Tag: Taxes
An animated fairy tale on taxes
This short animated fairy tale, written and directed by Fred Glass for the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by Ed Asner, explains, in
Lame duck hope: Logical thinking on Social Security, at long last
Something unexpectedly hopeful has happened in the 2012 lame duck session of Congress: Senator Mark Begic, a Democrat from Arkansas, has introduced a Social
Lame duck: Obama’s not-so-grand bargain
According to a leaked memo provided by Bob Woodward on last Sunday’s Meet the Press with David Gregory, Obama’s first try at a “Grand
Robert Reich on how to reduce the deficit
In a recent blog post, Robert Reich points out that Obama won re-election, so he needs to aim much higher on the upcoming budget
Lame duck alert: Don’t give more tax breaks to the people who need them least
The dust barely settled after the victory party in Chicago when the number crunchers turned into worker bees with a mission. As announced in a
America’s budget problem is a revenue problem
Contrary to warnings by politicians of both parties and by almost all of the mainstream press, America’s biggest fiscal problem is not spending on
Nickel-and-diming it: Surprising tidbits in Romney’s 2011 tax return
Inequality.com took a microscopic look at Mitt Romney’s 2011 federal tax return –one of the only two he’s released—and found some surprising tidbits. It
Wealth doesn’t trickle down when it’s parked in off shore tax havens
A new study by the Tax Justice Network “The Price of Offshore Revisited” shines a light on the size of the global offshore economy—the amount of
Obama calls for tax fairness
On Monday, July 9, President Obama urged Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts for those who make under $250,000 for one year and