Tag: taxes
Trump May Not Have Paid Taxes for Two Decades
According to leaked documents that show one year of his tax returns, Trump could have made over $50 million a year for nearly two decades and paid nothing in federal taxes.
If You Liked the Bush Economy, You’ll Love Trump’s Economy
Trump, like Bush, will attempt to grow the economy by giving corporations and upper class lower taxes.
Trump’s Tall Tax Tales
Donald is falsely framing his economic policies as good for working families, when he's really just protecting his own wealth.
For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry
“The current tax code has become an echo chamber for the economic forces driving the increase in income and wealth inequality, the blurring of economic and political influence, and the degradation of paid work.”
The Tax Debate Is Over, and Progressives Won
This is not some quirk. This is the latest example of progressive taxation outperforming conservative taxation.
The Growing Case for Massive Taxes on the Rich
Society's takers, hoarders, and cheaters just ignore the injustice, and go on avoiding taxes while they blame the less fortunate for their own misfortunes.
Gimme Shelter (From the Tax Man)
A tale of disappearing money and opportunistic candidates.
Righting the Wrongs
“ We live in a country that has been hijacked by super rich greedy fiends that have profited from what can be called the Big Con.”
Wall Street Should Pay a Sales Tax, Too
When a high-rolling trader buys millions of dollars’ worth of stocks or derivatives, there’s no levy at all.
Tax Time: How Corporations Are Cheating Schoolchildren
It's a devious double whammy: Taxpayers are giving money to the corporations and then paying a second time to meet the needs of the underfunded public schools.
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Will Harris lose the election over Gaza?
A deeper dive into the polls does indeed show that Harris's inability to take a stand against Israeli violence can indeed lead to a Trump victory.
Georgia judge strikes down six-week abortion ban in landmark ruling, citing women’s rights and...
Reproductive rights advocates celebrate a major victory, as Judge Robert McBurney rules the LIFE Act unconstitutional and restores abortion access up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Trump suggests ‘one day of brutal police force’ to end crime, citing immigrants as...
As Trump spreads baseless claims about rising crime, he calls for a day of violent police action targeting immigrants, prompting backlash and comparisons to authoritarian regimes.
Federal judge rules fluoridation an ‘unreasonable risk’ to health of children
The EPA will be required to take regulatory action to restrict or eliminate the risk by law.
‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts
Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”