…Medicaid through provider taxes. Republicans are really out to target low-income citizens by taking away Federal funding and then restricting state funding for Medicaid. What the hell did they do…

…sums they’ll owe are readily calculable, since about 72 percent of billionaires’ wealth is in their ownership of publicly traded stock. As they do with their payment of income taxes,…

by Linda Beale Dell’s Offshored Cash Hoard and Fair Taxes As most people who follow mergers, acquisitions and other mega transactions are likely aware, Michael Dell wants to take the…

…that they had a huge, huge housing bubble, worse even than ours, and since their housing bubble is—like ours—the main cause of their economic problems, and since Romney wants to…

…taxpayers who pay no federal income tax do pay other taxes: state and local income, property and sales taxes eat up a substantial amount of income, as do federal payroll…

…My Big Fat Belizean, Singaporean Bank Account. The author shows how easy it was for him to establish a secret offshore bank account that would allow him to evade US…

…GOP proposal would have it), the average reduction in taxes for Americans in the three lower quintiles (who make less than 75 thousand a year) would be considerably less than…

…the impact of going to war again without committing to pay for that war with up-front taxes, something we did not do in either Iraq or Afghanistan, for the first…

by Mike Kimel Corporate Profits and Corporate Taxes Based on a comment by reader Troy, the following graph from FRED, posted without comment: Figure 1…

…to 63% range answering that question affirmatively since July 2008. Similarly, a recent poll showed that 47% favor a candidate who wants to raise taxes on the rich over a…