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Last week, I wrote about the California Supreme Court’s decision striking down a law that required potential presidential candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns in order to appear on the state ballot. But another state might try a similar tactic. And if the state’s supreme court allows the disclosure law to stand, the Trump […]
With the recent announcement of Walmart’s increasing starting wages and Fiat Chrysler’s opening a new plant (with 2,500 jobs) in Michigan, there are now more than a hundred companies that have offered bonuses and benefit hikes to their workers due to the tax cut. An estimated 1 million workers have benefited. This after less than […]
One of my favorite Christmastime presents is the Census Bureau’s release of its annual population estimates for all of the states. Comparison of the April 1, 2010, Census Bureau enumerations and the June 30, 2017, estimates for the states shows how each state fared in the Obama years, seeing as this period includes 82 of […]
The unsung hero of the GOP Christmas gift of a tax cut is Arthur Laffer — the Reagan economist who helped devise the Gipper’s tax reductions. Those tax cuts rebuilt the U.S. economy in the 1980s and pulled us out of the mini-depression of high inflation and unemployment in the late 1970s. Some 30 years […]
A new report is out that says that the $400 million “ransom” money that was given to Iran wasn’t handed over until the hostages were secured. The thing that amazes me is that they think that makes it okay. Really? What did they think we would say as the American people? “Oh…you waited till they […]
Donald Trump made his income tax returns public before and when he did it showed he had paid $0 in income taxes. He had taken advantage of a tax-code provision in the 70’s that allowed him to report negative income. And yet he has said, “they make a fortune. They pay no tax. It’s ridiculous, […]