Tag: taxes
Republican tax reform: Principles of ethics and morals be damned
Republicans are trying to peddle the old worn out “trickle down” economic theory that they insist will greatly stimulate growth and create millions of jobs.
‘Must be the season of the RICH’
We are living in an age here in an Amerika that not only rivals the infamous Gilded Age (1870-1890) but surpasses it!
If you make under $75,000, you lose
Behind closed doors, Republicans admit that their tax plan is all for their rich donors.
“Every darn penny”: The GOP’s philosophy on death and taxes
Apparently, voters know when Republicans are lying – excuse me, when they’re being philosophical – about taxes.
Senate tax bill could be ‘devastating’ to wind and solar power
Tax credits have fueled the renewable energy industry's boom, but the Senate tax bill "undermine[s] our capacity to use renewable energy tax credits, which have value only if they can be monetized."
How to stop a tax plan rigged for the rich
Could a defeat of the GOP tax plans of 2017 signal a similar new egalitarian upsurge? Maybe. But first we have to deliver that defeat.
Orrin Hatch’s ‘bullcrap’ on taxes is exactly that
Hatch’s tax plan is nothing more than another giveaway to his rich patrons.
Fools or knaves?
There are two kinds of liars. Fools lie because they don’t know the truth. Knaves lie because they intend to mislead. Trump is both.
7 not-so-subtle messages Congress is sending with its tax plans
The two tax bills define what’s important to a society. Or more to the point, who’s not important.
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