taxes

Labor takes on racism in GOP “Pledge”

October 12, 2010 By Dan Margolis

The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.

Missouri tax ballot initiative would gut services

September 30, 2010 By Tony Pecinovsky

Missouri voters also face a billionaire-funded November ballot initiative that would eliminate the earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City.

Republican candidates “pledge” open warfare on working families

September 28, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Republican Party Senate candidates pledged this past week to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.

GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam

September 24, 2010 By John Wojcik

It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."

Republican “pledge”: kill jobs, give money to rich

September 24, 2010 By Joel Wendland-Liu

While the GOP plan would deliver this harsh blow to working families, it would add some $629 billion to the deficit in order to provide new tax cuts for the richest 2 percent of Americans.