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Taxes
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Grows
The July trade report is out. Exports are rising, but imports are rising even more.
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President Offers To Give Republicans The Store, They Demand More
The President offered Republicans a corporate tax reform plan that gives them everything they want.
Detroit Red Wings Get New $400 Million Taxpayer-Financed Stadium While the City Goes Bankrupt
Frank Hammer: Detroit's road to ruin was paved by an ill-conceived economic model.
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We’re Taxing the Rich … and So Can You
There is an alternative to austerity; its name is ‘progressive taxes.’
Why GOP Wants to Tax Students and Not Polluters
Robert Reich: Why would government incentivize carbon emissions and discourage higher ed? Ask Republicans.
What We Can Learn From America’s First Tea Party About Countering Corporate Power
Before there was Citizens United, a modern Tea Party movement, or national momentum to ban corporate personhood, Thom Hartmann shows that resistance to corporate power is just as patriotic …
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Reclaiming Public Control Over Public Assets and Destructive Outsourcing
Short-term efforts to close budget gaps can have a disastrous long-term impact.
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Thirteen Facts About America’s Tax-Dodging Corporations
Richard Eskow: There are many more astonishing facts to be found in the world of corporate taxation.
The IRS Non-Scandal “Scandal“
Even the mainstream media - after much initial sloppy, knee-jerk reporting - finally realized that they and the American public were being played by the Republican Party.
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Alternatives to School Cuts
Massive budget cuts across Chicago have the potential to cripple any chance of equal education in low income areas.