taxes

‘Tax the rich’ gaining support

January 26, 2010 By Susan Webb

Seventy-three percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, like the idea of taxing those fat Wall Street bonuses.

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! That’s what we need!

January 17, 2010 By Nell Ranta

Diehard conservatives - mostly Republicans - are willing to let the elderly, the disabled and the children die, while they themselves do nothing but scream, "No new taxes!"

Union leaders meet with White House on health reform

January 11, 2010

WASHINGTON (PAI)--Democratic President Barack Obama tried Jan. 11 to convince top union leaders to drop labor's opposition to taxing workers' health care benefits.

Of tea partiers and tax revolters, who benefits?

November 28, 2009 By Sam Pizzigati

WASHINGTON (PAI) -You don't have to dig particularly deep, in the United States today, to find some striking similarities between today's virulently anti-Obama "Tea Party" crowd - and the pols like Sarah Palin who egg them...

New Yorkers fight City Hall on taxes

March 7, 2009 By Dan Margolis

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of people— unionists, community members, religious leaders and elected officials—came out here, March 5, at City Hall and in cities across the state to demand a fair budget for working...