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California’s Dreaming
I can’t say I have a first-hand feel for what’s going on in California, since I live on the opposite edge of the country, but here’s the story: Yesterday California voters defeated ballot proposals to...
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What Small Government Looks Like
Via Paul Krugman, small government and Colorado Springs. The city’s voters rejected a tax referendum needed to cover a budget gap caused by the recession. So, essentially, the city is shutting down...
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Um, This Is Not “Turning the Tables”
From the Washington Post, “McConnell Turns the Tables on Budget Vote“: Two can play this budget game. A day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) put Republicans on the spot by saying he...
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Here’s Your Wealth Redistribution
Eric Cantor found the courage to speak at the University of Michigan to an audience limited to 250. And he boldly spoke out in favor of being fair to his owners the rich. “Social justice is about...
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Taxing Issues
The Hill reports that Democrats in Washington may go after the “carried interest” tax loophole that gives preferential tax treatment to private equity executives. Some of them are even planning to push...
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Senate Dems Grow a Pair
I need to interrupt our gleeful snarking about Mitt Romney and his money and point to something significant that has happened in the Senate: Until last week Senate Democrats seemed to lack a majority...
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Romney’s Tax Policies Are a Joke
Typical — A new study describing Mitt Romneyâ€s tax cut proposals as an average tax increase for 95% of Americans is “a joke,†according to Romney adviser Eric Ferhnstrom. But policy aides offered...
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Taxes and 2016: Some Choices
Although this won’t surprise most of you, do read the in-depth feature in the New York Times about how the mega-wealthy avoid paying taxes. With inequality at its highest levels in nearly a century and...
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