Monday, September 28, 2026

Tag: taxes

Trump’s five worst tax secrets, revealed

The real question is, who pays for all the tax breaks that are given to people like Donald Trump?

You pay your fair share. Shouldn’t Wall Street?

While you and I file our taxes, Republicans want to make it even easier for big banks to dodge them.

A tax plan only a one percenter could love

It takes serious mental gymnastics to argue that Trump’s tax agenda would benefit the average working Joe or Jane.

Why tax resistance under Trump needs its antiwar edge

Tax resistance – in all its forms – does matter.

Filling in the magic asterisk: The Republican tax reform proposal

We might want to tell Speaker Ryan to keep his magic asterisks and leave the tax rates for the rich alone.

Filing taxes could be free and simple. But H&R Block and...

The makers of TurboTax and other online systems spent millions lobbying last year, much of it directed toward a bill that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled filings.

New evidence that poor Americans pay the highest taxes and get...

Today the taking of our national wealth can be tax-deferred indefinitely.

Wall street sodbusters

Big-money speculators are buying up farms, charging tenants to farm it, and boxing young, real farmers out of the market.

The ‘lower the tax rate to boost businesses’ competitiveness scam

When we cut taxes on corporations we are actually cutting taxes on a few people. And not just people, but very, very rich people.

To save Main Street, tax Wall Street

Tax avoidance by the wealthiest Americans is drying up our heartland communities and squelching opportunities for young people.

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