taxes
New Study: Romney tax plan would kill 800,000 jobs
July 17, 2012Mitt Romney's tax plan would reward companies for exporting more U.S. jobs as well as encouraging the firms to duck taxes.
Read moreUnions mount effort to end Bush tax cuts
June 5, 2012A coalition of unions and progressive groups launched a grassroots effort to end the Bush tax cuts by the end of this year.
Read morePay your share! Community members crash Chicago Mercantile Exchange
May 25, 2012Who would have guessed the Mercantile Exchange needed help from Illinois taxpayers?
Read moreProposed bill would end fossil fuel subsidies
May 15, 2012Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. announced they would introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act to Congress.
Read moreIn California, double the cuts, double the misery
May 15, 2012More misery loomed for Californians May 14 as Governor Jerry Brown delivered a revised 2012-13 budget projection doubling the already-deep cuts he called for in January.
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