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• Gov. Paterson Is Either Deliberately Deceptive Or Grossly Uninformed

  Based on his interview last night with Bill Moyers on PBS, it's fair to conclude that New York Gov. David Paterson (D), who wants to raise taxes on working class people and shield the super wealthy from any income tax...

  Posted by David Sirota on December 20, 2008 12:44 PM
  Tags: taxes

• The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget

  Grover Norquist is regularly billed as one of the leading intellectual lights of the conservative movement - and I think you will agree that the arguments he made in a debate with me over taxes this morning on CNBC...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 25, 2008 11:57 AM
  Tags: taxes

• Confused About Tax Promises

  I'm confused about the state of Barack Obama's tax promises. Last week we heard this strong, admirable declaration that campaign promises would be upheld - a rejection of the "center-right" media meme that tax increases on the super-wealthy hurt the...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 23, 2008 11:23 AM
  Tags: taxes

• Memo to Fox News & the GOP: America Has the Second-Lowest Business Taxes In the World

  Last week, I appeared on Fox News to discuss Barack Obama's tax proposals. You can watch the clip here - and make sure to watch the end where Fox News tries to drown me out with music. Not surprisingly,...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 21, 2008 10:34 AM
  Tags: shameless self-promotion taxes

• Obama Pushes Off Payroll Tax Reform Promise

  Here's the Associated Press in June: Democrat Barack Obama said Friday he would apply the Social Security payroll tax to all annual incomes above $250,000, which would affect the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans. It seemed like a pretty courageous...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 14, 2008 10:17 PM
  Tags: taxes war on the middle class

• A bellwether on state budget crises enters prime time

  In a televized address yesterday, the policy details of which went surprisingly unremarked even in the Times, New York Governor David Paterson announced what should come as a no-brainer to just about anyone with a pulse: the state of New...

  Posted by Austin Guest on July 31, 2008 3:07 PM
  Tags: budget economy new york paterson pay cut privatization recession taxes

• Will the Elite Pay Their Fair Share?

  New York, home to the wealthiest people in human history, is now facing a major budget problem, forcing the new Gov. David Paterson to decide whether to gut health care and social services for the poor, or raise taxes on...

  Posted by David Sirota on July 29, 2008 7:45 AM
  Tags: battle for the states taxes war on the middle class

• The Hostile Takeover of Tax Enforcement

  In case you thought the hostile takeover of our government by Big Money interests ended with the 2006 election, think again: "Pentagon contractors under scrutiny for setting up shell corporations in offshore tax havens are looking to the Senate as...

  Posted by David Sirota on May 14, 2008 7:18 AM
  Tags: taxes war on the middle class

• The Capital Gains Tax Question Charlie Gibson Should Have Asked

  My column last week criticizes ABC's Charlie Gibson for using his position as debate moderator to focus the presidential discourse on the supposed unfairness of asking very wealthy people to pay the same tax rate on their stock profits as...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 29, 2008 9:37 AM
  Tags: taxes

• Happy Birthday, Progressive Tax

  92 years ago today, the Supreme Court upheld the creation of the income tax - one of the few truly progressive taxes we still have in America....

  Posted by David Sirota on January 24, 2008 6:41 AM
  Tags: taxes

• AMT Shenanigans Are Train Wreck for States

  The Great Falls Tribune has an interesting angle on the Alternative Minimum Tax issue, and how it congressional delays are an upcoming train wreck for states: Congress' inability to solve the problem threatens to create another colossal unintended consequence: delaying...

  Posted by David Sirota on December 19, 2007 3:00 PM
  Tags: taxes war on the middle class

• Should We Really Feel Bad For Millionaires?

  Jay Stevens over at Left In the West sheds crocodile tears for millionaires......

  Posted by David Sirota on November 21, 2007 8:00 AM
  Tags: taxes

• Anti-Tax Coalition Continues to Fray In the West

  A few weeks ago, I penned a column about how the right's anti-tax, anti-government coalition was fraying apart - even in the Rocky Mountain West. In light of that, check out this story from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about how...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 12, 2007 7:56 AM
  Tags: taxes war on the middle class

• Sanders on Richistan

  Watch Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) head to the floor of the Senate and laments the plight of billionaires who are only able to afford $180,000 a year on wristwatches. Yes, he says, that they are only able to spend that...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 26, 2007 3:16 PM
  Tags: taxes war on the middle class

• "Not With a Bang, But a Whimper"

  That's how revolutions end - not with a bang, but with a whimper. And that goes for the Republicans' 30-year anti-tax revolution. As my new nationally syndicated column today shows, the public is finally turning away from the me-first economic...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 12, 2007 7:15 AM
  Tags: culture of corruption taxes war on the middle class

• LAND POLITICS: Law-and-Order Dems Target Energy Industry Tax Loophole

  Last week over at the Denver Post's PoliticsWest site, I pointed out how, in the wake of the Minnesota bridge disaster, many conservatives seem eager to berate any calls to even consider modest tax increases to repair and rejuvenate America's...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 12, 2007 12:09 PM
  Tags: Land Politics New conservation coalition taxes

• Selling Out to K Street Is "A Lot of Fun!"

  A few weeks ago, I took a look at U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and how one man can use one committee chairmanship (in this case, the Senate Finance Committee chairmanship) to obstruct, undermine and destroy the agenda of an...

  Posted by David Sirota on April 24, 2007 7:18 AM
  Tags: K Street Max Baucus minimum wage taxes

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