taxes
Debt panel to workers: Drop Dead!
November 11, 2010The Nov. 10 preliminary report from the federal budget deficit commission "tells working Americans to 'Drop Dead.'"
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Tax cuts for the rich? Fight in Congress begins
November 10, 2010On Saturday President Obama repeated his position that tax cuts for the middle class should be continued and tax cuts for the rich should be ended, but one Democrat is already caving in to Republicans.
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That’s capitalism: the super rich pay zero U.S. taxes
November 9, 2010Corporate taxes are not too high - they are way too low. In fact the majority of big corporations operating in the U.S. pay no taxes at all. That's right: zero.
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Republican “jobs” plan: tax cuts for the rich
November 9, 2010Give a business owner a million dollars a day in "incentives" - if no one is coming into the store, the owner will not create a single new job.
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Labor takes on racism in GOP “Pledge”
October 12, 2010The Republican Party's platform for the mid-term elections, its "Pledge to America," has a sharply racist edge.
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