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Romney refuses to list the deductions he’ll axe
Here … let me take a wild guess at it … All of the following will go “poof” under a Romney regime: Mortgage interest Student loan assistance Education costs American Opportunities Act benefits Medical and prescription cost deduction Veterans Benefits and Services Energy Efficiency deduction 401k IRA deduction (except for the one that somehow […]
Millionaires getting $30 BILLION in federal subsidies and refunds
November 14, 2011
Hey gang! You know all those fear-mongering headlines about how the Republicans and Democrats in the “Super Congress” can’t find a mutually agreeable position on where to cut spending and/or raise taxes to meet the debt-reduction deadline of Nov. 23? You know how they’re constantly babbling about “class warfare” and how it’s “unfair to expect […]
GOP proposes new “Corporate Tax Holiday” that *YOU* will pay for
October 25, 2011
I know you’ll find this incredibly difficult to believe, but there’s a lobbyist organization in Washington DC that’s pushing a bunch of Republicans around like household servants, demanding that politicians grant big business yet another “tax holiday” to protect their off-shore profits. It would sound incredulous if it weren’t happening on a daily basis, wouldn’t […]
Mitch McConnell supports raising taxes on the rich … circa 1990
August 11, 2011
You know how Mitch McConnell has bleated on and on about how there is “nothing on this earth that will make him support raising taxes on the wealthy”? Well, here’s a verbatim transcript from Mitch McConnell’s 1990 re-election campaign ad, entitled “Fair Share.” “Hi, I’m Mitch McConnell. I’m sure you’ve been watching this mess in […]
Tax Rate for Richest 400 Taxpayers Plummeted in Recent Decades, Even as Their Pre-Tax Incomes Skyrocketed
June 17, 2011
The effective federal income tax rate for the 400 taxpayers with the very highest incomes has declined by nearly half over the past two decades, even as their pre-tax incomes have grown five times larger, new IRS data shows. The top 400 households paid 13.4 percent of their income in federal individual income taxes in […]
The self-defeating agenda of partisan idiots
June 15, 2011
Congratulations partisan pundits and ignorant, unquestioning sheep of both parties. You’ve succeeded in turning the middle class on themselves. How else could the babbling minions believe in the “America” they claim will be delivered by the brainless imbeciles in the candidates field? Just look at what the rabid right-wing and their Tea Party (inbred) cousins […]
Gary St. Lawrence
August 23, 2012
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