The Tax Policy Center, bless their hearts, ran the numbers on Rep. Paul Ryan’s tax reform goals. The headline is that he’ll need to find $ 5.7 trillion deductions, exclusions, and other tax breaks to make his plan revenue neutral, as he’s promised to do. But they also put out a table showing what would… Read more »
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What millionaires moving to save on taxes says about them, and us
You can tell a lot by a country by how it deals with a new world of a plutocratic elite for whom national boundaries are but arbitrary lines on a map. And you can tell a lot about individual members of that elite by how they choose to deal with a world in which countries… Read more »
Slimy Lib Rep Van Hollen Says GOP Wants to Raise Taxes on Those Making $22K to Protect Millionaires (Video)
Slimy liberal Rep. Chris Van Hollen accused Republicans of wanting to raise taxes on those on Medicare to protect millionaires. Van Hollen was on FOX News Sunday this morning. “What we said was we wanted to take a balanced approach that very high income earners need to contribute a little more to reducing our deficit…. Read more »
Pelosi: Boehner’s bill ‘the Merry Christmas gift to millionaires’
Nancy Pelosi In a press conference held Thursday afternoon, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi excoriated House Speaker John Boehner’s fiscal cliff alternative bill, “Plan B,” and the sequestration alternative bill as “the Merry Christmas gift to millionaires” that would make 25 million working families pay $ 1,000 more in taxes every year, while people making over… Read more »