Tax Freedom Day 8 days earlier than in '08: change to believe in
Here’s some pocket change you can believe in: Tax Freedom Day 2009 comes much earlier than in 2007 or 2008. Take that, Teabaggers! Encouraging details below the flip...
View ArticleFind your Inner Libertarian: Stop Subsidizing GOP States
Mr. Potter:"Why don't you collect on these mortgages? Or foreclose?"George Bailey:"I can't do that, Mr. Potter. Some of these families have children."Mr. Potter:"They're not my children."George...
View ArticleGetting Cheeky With Tax Data, Part 1
A blog post from Mark Price, originally published on Third and State.This is the first of a three-part series running this week on Third and State.Last week, the editorial page of The Wall Street...
View ArticleShouldn't Raising the Payroll Tax Ceiling, be in the Middle of this Grand...
If everything is on the Table, if No cows can claim to be "sacred", in this new age of "not paying our bills"-- well shouldn't THIS sacred cow, be right there, a centerpiece, of this "grand"...
View ArticleStrategically Placed Comma sends Michigan's Business, Tax Climate Soaring!
Pop English quiz. Who can tell me the difference between these two headlines?"Michigan business, tax climate soars in Tax Foundation ratings, Snyder says"and"Michigan business tax climate soars in Tax...
View ArticleLarry Hogan's Tax Flight Fudge
In 2009, for the first time since Parris Glendening was governor, more taxpayers moved into Maryland from other states than left. It was the continuation of a turnaround in net migration that began in...
View ArticleNo surprise...Romney insulted mainly red state residents
One thing Romney might want to consider is that many of the 47% of Americans he insulted actually reside in the states most likely to vote for him.The ranking of states with "filers with no liability"...
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Romney's election chances depend on states with the largest count of people...
Moocherland, as defined by Mitt Romney, constitutes some of his most reliable ground come election day. You've probably already seen this 2008 map from the Tax Foundation. But it's worth repeating to...
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Bill Maher, Bernie Sanders, Makes Fool of Stephen Moore
One year ago the Citizens for Tax Justice stirred controversy with a report highlighting 280 corporate tax-dodgers, highlighting companies they said were paying under the 35 percent federal income...
View ArticleEverything you need to know about Tax Freedom Day (R)
Cross-posted from Middle Class Political Economist.
View ArticleRubio: My tax cuts will—and won’t—pay for themselves
Of all of the myths Republicans have generated for American voters, the fiction that "tax cuts pay for themselves" is the Uber Lie. After all, almost four decades of U.S history and a mountain of...
View ArticleSurprise! Ted Cruz's tax plan throws money at the rich, relies on pixie dust
Well, maybe 'Surprise!' is a bit sensational, but hey, it's a headline.Ted Cruz unveiled his plan for reforming the federal tax system yesterday, and it's a doozy. He's way behind Trump in terms of how...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ dynamic deception for 2016
This week's GOP presidential debate was notable both for what the candidates said and for what they didn't say. Noting that Presidents Obama and Clinton had added 107,000 and 240,000 jobs a month...
View ArticleGOP must lie to make Democrats sound extreme. Their ideas are extreme enough...
This week President Obama announced a series of actions on guns. The word that journalists most often used to describe them was “modest.” Obama clarified exactly who is “in the business” of selling...
View ArticleRight-wing Tax Foundation evaluates Trump's new tax plan—and it sucks, but...
The 79-year-old Tax Foundation, which has strong ties to the ALEC legislative mill and favors lower tax rates—as do its funders, which include the Koch Foundation—has run an analysis of Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleWall Street mini-tax could raise maxi revenue
With great fanfare, politicians on the left are thinking big on tax reform: a 70 percent rate on incomes over $10 million, a wealth tax on the super-rich, estate taxes as high as 77 percent. With no...
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