taxes
Missouri tax ballot initiative would gut services
September 30, 2010Missouri voters also face a billionaire-funded November ballot initiative that would eliminate the earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City.
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Republican candidates “pledge” open warfare on working families
September 28, 2010Republican Party Senate candidates pledged this past week to protect tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs, according to new media reports.
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GOP “pledge” condemned as flim-flam
September 24, 2010It's being called a "public relations" ploy, a kind of "Herbert Hoover economics," whose "numbers don't add up.."
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Republican “pledge”: kill jobs, give money to rich
September 24, 2010While 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.
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European unions set to march for “Robin Hood taxes”
September 14, 2010Next in the "rising tide of world labor protest" file comes the September 29 labor actions in Europe.
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