US views on fairness of taxes
One side has no point. I have mentioned from time to time the repeated Gallup polls showing strong support for tax progressivity. this is not a new phenomenon, Gallup started…
One side has no point. I have mentioned from time to time the repeated Gallup polls showing strong support for tax progressivity. this is not a new phenomenon, Gallup started…
…state income taxes from hundreds of thousands of workers – and are keeping the money with the states’ approval, says an eye-opening report published on Thursday. The report from Good…
…taxes and revenues, and having at least enough honesty not to obfuscate results. Sadly, there is a dispute among the folks who call themselves economists about that, and it seems…
…27.7% in 1992, the payout rate increased throughout the Clinton administration, topping at 34.5% in 2000. Then, there was another sharp drop. It has since leveled off, averaging 25% since…
…19 percent, likely voters say federal income taxes have gone up for the middle class in the past two years. “He’s all about raising taxes,” says poll respondent Jeanette Bagley,…
…provide “more services even if it costs more in taxes” than wants fewer services and less taxes. The results of the poll are hard to reconcile with the positions of…
…that taxes on businesses have on unemployment. The usual argument is that the lower the taxes on businesses, the more money they keep and pump back into, well, doing business,…
This is from the Wall Street Journal. The Obama administration has targeted small business with laser-like focus, pushing a $30 billion small-business lending fund in Congress and, later this week,…
…pay the partners’ income taxes “even if they are only ‘potential’ taxes.” The result is incredible profits for partners in the partnership owning the pipelines. The math here is stunning….
…changed in recent years to be too taxpayer-friendly, such as the reduction of foreign tax credit “baskets” that essentially permits taxpayers to “cross-credit” taxes, thus reducing US taxes too much…