The Evening Blues - 4-15-21
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 3:31pm
Taxes
Oh, the humanity
Submitted by EdMass on Mon, 05/20/2019 - 3:12pmYup. The government is here to help.
BACKFIRE: Philadelphia Implemented Soda Tax, But It Didn't Go As Planned
The Tax Man Cometh.
Submitted by EdMass on Mon, 12/31/2018 - 2:40pmAgree or disagree with the Tax Cut Bill that is now Law, in which State Deductions are capped at $10.000. This means that all those high tax states in NE, upper mid-west and West Coast with unfundable pension liabilities, RE taxes through the roof and out of control spending will have a reckoning with their citizens.
Open Thread - December 29, 2017
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 12/29/2017 - 3:20am
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself--half your life goes that way, till you are 45 or 50. Then, if you are lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.
-- Robert Penn Warren
Dear Mr. Warren,
Open Thread - Friday, December 15, 2017
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 3:20am
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
― Rob Liano
Open Thread - Friday, December 8, 2017
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 12/08/2017 - 3:20am
Commenter more than essayist
Submitted by Lenzabi on Sat, 09/09/2017 - 7:43pmHi some know me, others are not familiar with me, but I do comment at times, and I have bouts where I stay silent and lurk. My health is poor, and shot, and I do look at what I can to see how things are shaping up past my computer, in a double-wide these days, on a hill, in the middle of East Bum-F$%#. Please bear with me, I did warn I am in a biting mood as seen by my most recent comments in some of your essays. I also rarely will pull a punch.
Let Me Catapult This Right Out There
Submitted by Lily O Lady on Mon, 08/29/2016 - 1:17pmYesterday while reading, I ran across this little bit of widely accepted propaganda, to whit, "tax relief." Of course progressives will recognize this as the bullshit excuse for tax cuts.
Cheaters! Let's talk about tax-paying inequality
Submitted by Democrita on Thu, 05/26/2016 - 1:39pmThis is not exactly news, but it is nice to see a fellow over at CounterPunch quantifying tax cheating.
Here's the key passage:
"How much of this tax cheating involves big-time business people and how much involves mom-and-pop business operators? The IRS doesn’t say. The agency doesn’t break down the new tax evasion data by taxpayer income class.
But eight years ago, economists Andrew Johns and Joel Slemrod went through earlier IRS raw data and did just that.
My Tax Burden
Submitted by neoconned on Sun, 04/17/2016 - 7:00pmCorporations like to whine about how much they pay in taxes. It is the motivation behind companies like Burger King racing across the Canadian border to devour Tim Horton's just so that BK can wear the butchered pelt and pretend to be a Canadian corporation now, thus qualifying to pay less in taxes.
