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Taxes
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Scrap the Sequester, Solve Inequality
Itu2019s time to close the tax loopholes and make Americau2019s billionaire class pay its fair share of taxes like the rest of us do.
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Making Tax Fair Would Guarantee Social Security for Future Generations
Making the tax more equitable is the most obvious way to guarantee solvency for generations to come.
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What’s Wrong with the “Right to Work”?
Who really benefits from
Debt Ceiling Games – Court Could End Leverage
Whether or not President Obama can simply rule to pay bills owed by the United States and bring the country financial relief depends on the courts.
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Swell Times for America’s Swollen Fortunes
Americau2019s political leaders took it upon themselves to start hacking away at the federal estate tax.
Economic Update: Our Unjust Federal Tax System
Updates on how the new US tax deal favors the rich, deepening student loan problems, and how 2012 benefited billionaires. Analysis of possible conversion from a war-oriented to a …
Cliff Deal a “Moderate” Betrayal
Bill Black: Compromise on tax hikes on rich and allowing payroll taxes to rise sets the ground for a “grand betrayal” yet to come.
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An Ugly Deal
A final deal has been reached between Senate and President Obama in regards to the fiscal cliff, and while it is victory in some ways, it is failure …
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Summoned Back to Work, Senators Chafe at Inaction
Reluctant members of Senate return to their jobs early from Christmas vacation with one thing in full agreement: they all would rather be at home.
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Republicans Are the Ruling Party of Billionaire-istan
If the Democratic Party doesn't hold Billionaire-istan accountable with new wealth taxes and protections for workers, then they will accomplish their all-out looting of America.