21,000 Affluent People Paid no income taxes last year and didn’t create a single job for anybody

The rich are making off like bandits because they are. The affluent have purchased enough legislation to ensure a constant redistribution of income from the 99 percent to themselves, they’ve bought tax breaks from legislators, free trade income redistribution treaties, income redistribution privatized government services, income redistribution deregulation, and you get the picture. But here’s [...]

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America’s Middle Class Tax Morality

Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! Guess what? Taxes are a way of paying government services, but they’re also a way of voicing group solidarity. A study shows the truth of this. Click on the link below. America's middle-class tax morality

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What would Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith Say About Raising Taxes on the Rich? I.E. The Buffett Rule

The following is a letter from former congressman, Alan Grayson. “I don’t know what Founding Father and President Thomas Jefferson would have thought about TV, cars, spaceships, cellphones, skyscrapers, computers or nuclear weapons. But I do know what Jefferson would have thought about the Buffett Rule. He would have liked it. The Buffett Rule is [...]

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Tax the Super Pacs

When the traitorous and corrupt Koch Brothers wing of the US Supreme court ruled in favor of personhood for corporations, allowing unlimited spending on political campaigns in its anti-constitutional ruling in the Citizens United Case, it destroyed the remains of honest government. Now Super Political Action Committees rule the political landscape. People don’t. Now somebody [...]

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Guess which states don’t want you to see how they spend your money. Are they blue or red states?

A network of US Public Interest Research Groups (US PIRGs) produced a report revealing that forty-six states now “allow residents to access checkbook-level information about government expenditures online.” Guess which states don’t allow citizens to check on how their hard earned money is being spent? Are they red or blue states? If they’re red states, [...]

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Look Out Obama! Plans for U.S. manufacturing may yield more votes than jobs

(Reuters) – U.S. factories are hiring again, and Democratic President Barack Obama and some of his Republican rivals are pitching tax breaks to fuel a rebound in manufacturing and help rebuild a battered middle class. Click here for the complete story

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Fed Chairman Bernanke Lies and Says Bush Tax Cuts Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Expire

Bernanke, puppet of Wall Street, testified to congress that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would jeopardize the economy. That’s B.S. Those tax cuts helped get us in this mess in the first place. Click here for the complete story

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Corporations taxed less than Mitt Romney!

>Many Americans were shocked last month to learn that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney only paid an effective tax rate of 13.8 percent in 2010, but a recent report shows that corporations are paying even less. Corporations in the U.S. paid only an average of 12.1 percent in taxes on the profits they earned inside [...]

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Did Mitt Romney Lie About His 2010 Taxes?

It turns out Mitt Romney didn’t release all of the documents related to his 2010 taxes. There’s that pesky Swiss Bank account he failed to mention. In other breaking news, there were a number of trust accounts that Mitt failed to mention when he released his income tax statements. So it may be that Mitt [...]

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Founder of the Subway Sandwich Chain Says US Taxes on Rich People Needs to Rise

Fred De Luca, the founder of Subway, said in an interview with the BBC the US tax system was screwed up. He said that the rich need to pay more in taxes, not so the government can spend more, but to lower the taxes on working people. Click here for the audio of the interview

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