Thursday, October 11, 2012

New Model Legislation Would be Great First Step Toward Subsidy Reform

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Yesterday, Good Jobs First released new model legislation to increase the transparency, accountability, and effectiveness of state and loca...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Romney Tax Plan as Budget Busting as Ever

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Seriously, I could just re-post my February 27th post word for word tonight and it would be just as true as it was then. The Romney tax pla...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

Conservative Refutation of Butler/Heritage Health Care Revisionism Continues

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The pile-on continues. As I discussed in February , Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation wrote a breath-taking op-ed in USA Today (via...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Mitt Romney's Unintentionally Hilarious Tax Return FAQ

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Unless you've been in a coma, you have certainly heard about Mitt Romney's release of his 2011 tax returns last Friday. You no doubt...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Every State's State/Local Tax System Taxes the Poor More than the Wealthy--And All Exceed Federal Taxes

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A new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) shows that in every state in the country, the bottom 20% of househol...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

More New Books Highlight Plight of Middle Class

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The situation of the middle class is a hot topic these days, and rightly so. In addition to James Carville and Stan Greenberg's recent b...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

UBS Whistleblower's Award Reminds Us Romneys Banked at UBS

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Yesterday, the lawyers for Bradley Birkenfeld , the whistleblower in the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) tax evasion case, announced that he...