REUVEN CARLYLE: Want a tax break? Publicly share your “pay as you go” ideas. “Pay as you go” is a budgeting principal that has been tried in Congress and in many states and failed in almost as many places. It’s popular on the left and right during good times but understandably struggles[...]
Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
December 1st, 2014 - 2:19 pm § in Politics
GOP Takes Revenge Against Obama By Screwing The Working Poor
“With negotiators nearing an accord on permanent tax breaks for businesses worth $440 billion over 10 years, President Obama … promised a veto. … Left off were … a permanently expanded earned-income credit and a child tax credit for the working poor. Friday night, Republic[...]
October 27th, 2014 - 2:31 pm § in Hypocrisy
Guess What, Taxpayers Will Pay For Steve Ballmer’s Basketball Team
Steve Ballmer wasn’t so crazy to pay $2 billion for a basketball team. It turns out taxpayers will pay at least half of the purchase cost. “Steve Ballmer stands to gain as much as $1bn in tax benefits as a result of his $2bn purchase of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, helping to [...]
Ballot Recommendations: Two Sets of Similar Ideas
Geov Parrish: This year’s general election ballots have been mailed out, and they’re…long. And complicated. Not to worry – I’m here to help. Because buried among the judicial races and “advisory vote” nonsense are some genuinely important, meaningful choices. Unlike this Augus[...]
September 23rd, 2014 - 1:30 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
WASTATE IS NUMBER ONE! … in unfair taxes
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April 29th, 2014 - 3:08 am § in Environment, The Ave Scene
THE SEATTLE WAY: Why Prop 1 Failed
This map shows clearly why Proposition 1 failed. People living across the lake… Bellevue, Medina, Redmond and Issaquah … choose to live there because they love cars. They do not want to pay for all those buses running around urban Seattle. These people are commuters. The commuter attit[...]
April 21st, 2014 - 9:09 am § in America
SOUTH CAROLINA: Why Would Anyone Choose to LIve There>
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April 15th, 2014 - 11:24 am § in Misc.
A $15/hr wages makes all Americans rich!
from Jim Miller at Sound Politics If you are single, then by world standards, probably in the top 5 percent, almost certainly in the top 10 percent. Here’s how I come to that tentative conclusion: A $15 an hour wage gives you a yearly gross income of $30,000, assuming you work 40 h[...]
April 15, How Not to Pay Tax … Join Snowden and give up your passport!
Expatriates giving up their nationality at U.S. embassies climbed to 1,131 in the three months through June of last year from 189 in the year-earlier period, according to Federal Register figures published today. That brought the first-half total to 1,810 compared with 235 for the whole of 2008. Why[...]