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The Elderly May Not Be As Taxing As Generally Thought 22 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
One of the common assumptions about health care costs (and the costs of benefit programs like Medicare) has been that the increasing life spans of Americans will result in significantly greater health...
The Tea Party's Disruptive Anti-Government (and anti-tax) Politics 11 Aug 2013 | 08:27 pm
The New York Times ran an interesting piece by Kim Messick on the Tea Party's psyche yesterday: Messick, The Tea Party's Paranoid Aesthetic, New York Times (Aug. 10, 2013). It's worth trying to under...
Reich is Right: It's only lies that support corporate tax reform 10 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Robert Reich says that Obama's offer to trade increased infrastructure investment for corporate tax reduction is foolish. He's right. The US has been lowering corporate taxes, through one industry-f...
The Right's Goal--end the one tax expenditure that truly aids poor working families 8 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The Tax Foundation, that propaganda tank that masquerades as a "nonpartisan" "think" tank, is at it again. Now it's pushing the right-wing agenda of ending any tax expenditures that redistribute reso...
If only we really had a liberal media, everyone would know about corporate outsourcing, then why would anyone think tax reform should mean tax breaks ... 8 Aug 2013 | 08:50 am
The Daily Kos has a good "buzz" list of the "!5 Things Everyone Would Know if We Really Had a Liberal Media". Here's Number One: 1. Where the jobs went. Outsourcing (or offshoring) is a bigger cont...
The Right cuts food stamps to pass corporate farm welfare--where's the sense in that? 7 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
The House has its priorities firmly in mind. Those priorities involve making sure that the wealthy people and corporations keep their wealth while any and all possible cuts to any welfare or "entitle...
David Sirota Agrees with me on the Tax Reform "Secrecy" Scandal 1 Aug 2013 | 08:34 am
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Max Baucus has established a secret submission process for Senators to let him know what pet tax loopholes they want to retain (probably the ones that high-paid lobb...
Ways and Means--still distracting with false scandals 1 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
GOP representatives Camp and Boustany are continuing to beat the dead horse of an IRS "scandal" connected with the way the IRS has attempted to efficiently filter new applications for 501(c)(4) status...
Inequality: Obama's Speech, Detroit's Bankruptcy, Taxes 29 Jul 2013 | 09:58 pm
Was Obama's speech on inequality really what Michael Lind claims in "The Day the Right Lost the Economic Argument" Salon.com (July 25, 2013)? The right, both here and internationally, has been push.....
Proposals for Cutting the IRS Budget 26 Jul 2013 | 09:29 pm
As the budget battles loom again in our dysfunctional Congress, one of the targets of the right is, not unexpectedly, funding for the IRS. Sequestration is already hampering the IRS's ability to per...
