Taxes

Helping Americans pick themselves up and get back on their feet is more important than forking over billions to corporations that don't need it.

CA, GA, OK introduce bills promoting accountability and transparency in deals to outsource public services to for-profit corporations.

The key reason that communities are struggling is the huge burden of interest payments that are flowing to the big banks.

Vermont and West Virginia recently introduced transparency and accountability legislation aimed at protecting taxpayersand putting them back in charge of their public services.

An ugly outbreak of whiny victimhood is ravaging some of America's most exclusive ZIP codes.

Handing previous public services over to private corporations, without assessing the full costs, can become a 75-year-long nightmare, as in the case of parking in Chicago, argues Ellen Dannin.

Although NY faces a $1.7 billion deficit this year, Governor Cuomo proposes a huge tax giveaway to the wealthiest citizens, costing the state nearly $800 million and embolding others.

Republicans want to protect tax havens for billionaires. They don't want the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to go into effect later this year, and more.

If the state puts political activists in handcuffs for shutting down bridges, it should do the same to governors and the minions who do their bidding.

At the Ways and Means website, one of the first things the GOP did was to cut off email contact between ordinary Americans and possibly the most powerful tax-writing …