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Taxes
Posturing from Weakness
President Obama's 2015 budget proposes a number of tax increases that will mainly affect the rich.
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It’s Time for Maryland’s Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share
When you have 305 million chickens on the Eastern Shore, that's a lot of poultry waste polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
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San Francisco Protesters Take Aim at Twitter’s Tax Breaks
Last Wednesday, more than 400 San Francisco city employees marched from the city's Department of Human Resources to Twitter headquarters a few blocks away. The workers chanted, "Twitter, you're …
Groups, Van Hollen Tell IRS to Limit Nonprofit Electioneering
The comments address widespread abuses of the Internal Revenue Code by groups that claim to be eligible for tax-exempt status.
New Report Exposes America’s Highest Paid Government Workers
A new report shows that, contrary to misinformation spread by some politicians and pundits, America's highest paid “government” workers are not your local teachers, nurses, or sanitation workers.
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Four Signs Billionaire Tom Perkins Has Lost Touch With Reality (and Why It Matters)
American multi-billionaire Tom Perkins can't seem to avoid controversy lately.
12 States Now Moving to Curb Reckless Outsourcing of Public Services
Six more states have joined what appears to be a national movement to reign in reckless outsourcing of public services to for-profit corporations.
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Better Way To Keep Track of Taxpayer Dollars
The concept is simple: fund what works, dump what doesn't.
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Close the “Water’s Edge” Loophole
Working-class Americans shouldn't have to face the burden of corporate tax loopholes that are letting corporations off the hook. Let's bring those offshore trillions back home, and start rebuilding …
McConnell Supports Deficit Spending on Big Corporate Tax Breaks While Opposing Emergency Spending for Unemployment Benefits Unless Paid For
The package of tax breaks that McConnell supports expire every year or two and are routinely renewed with little debate by Congress despite their huge costs.