by Linda Beale The AMT: why we should retain it with minor reforms to protect the true middle class A commenter on an earlier thread complained about the Alternative Minimum…

…having been shunned by the President and the news media. So now, ten years later, we find some American authors writing alternative histories about that time. The most recent, and…

…a much better alternative. So would a “competition” system that looks like what is currently in place in the Netherlands or Switzerland, or what Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., first proposed…

…an “alternative minimum tax” like, say, the alternative minimum tax). One could replace the deductions by an AMT like provision that taxes are the greater of taxes calculated with the…

…latest employment report to change the relatively optimistic forecasts they’ve made recently, I try to say that there’s nothing in the data to reject the alternative forecast either, i.e. that…

…four). Eliminates the alternative minimum tax [AMT]. Promotes saving by eliminating taxes on interest, capital gains, and dividends; also eliminates the death tax. Replaces the corporate income tax – currently…

…foods and so on, there are so many alternative sources we could develop if we needed to that no one can actually, in anything other than the short term, control…

…is a consequence of unions, that we should be more like Louisiana, and there is no economic literature on labor to offer some alternative explanations. And serves notice to public…

by reader Ilsm “No, Again, To F-35 Alt-Engine: Schwartz”, John Reed, DefenseNews.com August 4, 2010 The U.S. Air Force’s top general reaffirmed his opposition to the GE-Rolls Royce’s alternative engine…

…reform page we get the following (bolding mine): This plan discards a needlessly complex and manipulative tax code, replacing it with a simplified mechanism that promotes work, saving, and investment….