Yet Another Reminder: Washington Is a Low-Tax State! by Goldy, HORSESASS Personal finance social network WalletHub ranks Washington the 6th best state in which to be a taxpayer. Apropos to yesterday’s post on the proper context in which to put proposed local tax hikes, I’d just like to mention f[...]
Posts Tagged ‘taxes’
March 20th, 2014 - 8:18 am § in Misc.
Washington the 6th best state in which to be a taxpayer.
January 8th, 2014 - 4:26 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Seattle Port Commission Claims Immunity From Democracy
The City of SeaTac Cannot Pass Laws That Regulate People in The SeaTac Airport. The minimum wage went up last week in 13 states that didn’t wait around for Congressional Republicans to do the right thing. http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/29/news/economy/minimum-wage-states/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 Meanwhi[...]
June 25th, 2013 - 12:29 pm § in Misc.
Tax Patriots .. do not buy this guy’s champagne, handbags or cognac!,
France’s richest man moves to Belgium and takes multi-billion pound fortunewith him ‘to avoid new socialist super-tax’ Bernard Arnault, head of luxury goods group LVMH, insists that he moved the cash and assets for ‘family inheritance reasons’ It is thought he wan[...]
The Benefits of a Not Taxing The Rich
FILE – The world’sEclipse, currently the world’s largest privately owned yacht, belongs to Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian business mogul who is renown for his steadfast commitment to privacy—-a commitment that no doubt fueled speculation. Eclipse boasts a crew of over 60, [...]
February 13th, 2013 - 2:58 am § in The Ave Scene
Who pays the MOST taxes in our state?
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]