WA POOR PAY SIX TIMES AS MUCH AS WA RICH! A new report on state tax systems found that Washington state had the most regressive tax system in the country. The Washington D.C.-based Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) released the report yesterday. Combining state and local property ta[...]
Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
January 28th, 2013 - 12:32 pm § in The Ave Scene
Talking Points from Tim Eyman
* After two unanimous state supreme court rulings, opponents of statewide initiatives have accepted that pre-election legal challenges will fail to block the vote so they don’t file them anymore. Under I-517, it’ll be the same for opponents of local initiatives — they’ll know[...]
January 19th, 2013 - 11:20 am § in Misc.
Anybody Want to Bet Zuckerberg Will Not Pay Taxes on His $2,300,000,000?
Zuckerberg to sell $2.3bn in shares Lets see … that would come to about 500,000,ooo![...]
Real Wealth Goes Untaxed, Paul Alan and Jeff Bezos Relieved!
The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks! I love talking about taxes. Our President and both houses of Congress have finally all agreed on a deal on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I’ve been holding my breath on this because I thought for sure that I’d be paying a lot more in taxes this [&he[...]
September 22nd, 2012 - 5:03 pm § in Misc.
ROMNEYISMS: his taxes
“He’s still failing to match the precedent set by other presidential candidates,” the video’s narrator says, going on to list the number of tax returns George Romney, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush released during their presidential runs. Wall Street Journa[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]
June 27th, 2011 - 9:09 pm § in America
America .. the World’s Tax Haven
Our Citizens and Corporations Pay Much Less Than They Once Did and Much Less Than in Most Other Countries Taxes for the wealthy, and superwealthy like Warren Buffett, have plunged in recent years. SOURCE: AP/Paul White from AP and Center for American Progress by Michael Linden, Seth Hanlon, Jordan E[...]
January 18th, 2011 - 6:56 pm § in Uncategorized
Jerry Brown shows the level of courage no one expects in our state.
Reality surfacing in California by Michael O’Hare from The Reality Based Community Jerry Brown has issued a budget that engages a $25b deficit. Note the word engages; not “papers over” or “hides with wishful thinking” or “lies about”; engages. There’s plenty of work not done [...]
ANIMAL FARM, Congress Style
As government employees, we are all quite aware of NOT using government reources. How it it them that a Congressman’s son was caught using OUR federal Cadillac Escalade? Can a UW profs get a car too? Or at least a Vespa? The story is about John Conyer’s son. The Detroit Free Pr[...]
Mitch McConnel Sucks His Fist: No Taxes Mommy
“I’m in favor of doing tax reform,” he said, “but I think tax reform ought to be revenue-neutral as it was back during the Reagan years. We’ve resolved this issue. Look, we don’t have this problem because we tax too little. We have it because we spend way, way too much.” Hi[...]