Showing posts with label Taxes 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taxes 2017. Show all posts
Friday, December 29, 2017

Little Marco admits Republican tax bill went too far helping corporations

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Story here . Great. But he still voted for it.  No Profile in Courage Award for you, mister.
Friday, December 22, 2017

Tax Policy Center expects charitable giving to drop by $13 to $20 billion annually because of Republican tax reform

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Way to go, Brownie! Discussed here .
Thursday, December 21, 2017

Read it and weep: "The move to a territorial system opens the barn doors wide to corporate offshoring"

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Read all about the new giant sucking sound, here .
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Once again in the dead of night Senate Republicans pass tax reform for multinational corporations

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The New York Times, here : The Senate approved the bill early Wednesday morning. The Senate voted 51 to 48, with no Republican def...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Republican tax reform for multinational corporations passes US House 227-203-2

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The New York Times has the roll call, here . Just 12 Republicans voted "No", most from states hurt by the $10,000 cap for de...

Taxes are about precise numbers, which means Rush Limbaugh will make you cringe

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He just said Ronald Reagan lowered the top marginal rate from 90% in the 1981 tax reform. He didn't. John F. Kennedy lowered the t...

Republican tax "reform" will make it harder for you to move, eliminating the relocation deduction

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Reported here : Are you thinking of moving across the country for a new career opportunity? If so, the tax bill won't let you dedu...

Tax bill includes an incentive for US companies to invest in foreign manufacturing

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Tax bill includes an incentive for US companies to invest in foreign manufacturing
Friday, December 15, 2017

Sometimes Ann Coulter is an idiot, for instance when dissing federal encouragement of having children

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You'd think someone who wants America for Americans would want to encourage anything which promotes Americans having more children ins...

1986 was the last year domestic investment exceeded investment abroad, which is why everything REALLY SUCKS here now

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NAFTA began with Canada in 1989, was expanded in 1994, China became a WTO member in 2001, but the 1986 tax reform really started the fina...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Judge Roy Moore loses US Senate bid in Alabama by 20,715 votes, 1.5 points

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Judge Roy Moore joins the Todd Akin club. Republicans got the man they really wanted, Democrat Jones, who will give them the conveni...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Conservative heroine Phyllis Schlafly opposed the territorial tax system the Republicans are about to shove down our throats

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Here in November 2011: Although the Perry plan's most striking feature is its anti-marriage bias, his proposal for corporate inco...

Gene Sperling: Republican tax reform will shift even more corporate profits and jobs abroad

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You'd better pray this reform effort fails, for your kids' sake. In The Atlantic here : Now that the bill is advancing, it...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Sum Ting Wong: Low top marginal tax rates since 1986 have NOT delivered

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Low top marginal tax rates have NOT delivered since 1986. The average top marginal rate has been 38% for the last thirty years, 49...

Recent history shows that recipients of lower top marginal income tax rates haven't invested the money . . . here

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The top marginal rate averaged 70% from 1960, 73% shown is from 1956. The investment data starts in 1960. Individuals and businesses n...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

The new giant sucking sound of your jobs going abroad: Republican territorial tax "reform"

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Phyliss Schlafly was rightly against a territorial system long ago, and most recently opposed it when the doofus from Texas, Rick Perry, p...
Friday, December 1, 2017

NYT claims 2010 Obama Paygo law would require mandatory spending cuts under the Republican tax bill

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From the story here : The biggest program affected would be Medicare, the health insurance program for older people and the disabled. ...

Once again Republicans refuse to even THINK of cutting spending in order to cut taxes

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Reported here : The Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that a fiscal "trigger," important to winning deficit-wary Sen. Bo...

Retiring Sen. Bob Corker demands Republicans raise taxes in order to cut them

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We had to destroy the village in order to save it. Bombing is the only way forward. We had to have a war between the States in ord...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

How to know the Senate tax bill SUCKS: John McCain now supports it

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From the story here : "After careful thought and consideration, I have decided to support the Senate tax reform bill," McCai...