Breaking News: Higher Energy Prices Will Cut Demand
Nice to see Tom Friedman on the energy tax bandwagon. As he wrote in his Dec. 27 New York Times column, “I’ve wracked my brain trying to think of ways to retool America around clean-power technologies...
View ArticleMaking Work Pay Enough : A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families
One-third of America’s families with children are low income, meaning their incomes fall below twice the federal poverty level. Although four in five of these families work, many don’t bring home...
View ArticleREASONS TO CELEBRATE
Americans have two reasons to celebrate today. .. .First of all we can celebrate the fact that George W Bush is gone! . Dubya has been the worst President in at least my lifetime (yes I was around...
View ArticleEvaluating the National Retail Federation’s "Tax Holiday" Idea
Yesterday the National Retail Federation published an open letter to President-to-be Barack Obama urging that come January, Obama’s stimulus package should including a national “sales tax holiday,”...
View ArticleWells Fargo Tax Giveaway (Finally) Attracting Some Notice
Better late than never?The truth of this saying may be tested in coming weeks, as lawmakers and regulators grapple with the question of how to fix an under-the-radar corporate tax break for a few large...
View ArticleCutting through the Tax Rhetoric Clutter
Some great fact checks have recently been run by several news organizations and watchdog groups decrying the distortions of Obama’s tax plan in several advertisements run by the McCain campaign. First...
View ArticleNew Jersey, What Not To Do
“When Barack Obama makes his New Year’s resolutions, at the top of his list ought to be the following: ‘I will not allow America to become New Jersey.’ Think of it as our [New Jersey's] gift to the...
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