Polly Cleveland: Grover Norquist Is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes
Sales taxes — of whatever stripe — fall harder on poorer than richer customers. And they squeeze smaller retailers more than big ones.
Tag Archives: tax fairness
Salvatore Babones: The World’s Smallest Shipwreck
Romney went to the trouble of filling out a Form 4684 (Casualties and Thefts) to report losses of $39. One can only wonder what was broken or stolen. I like to think that the $39 were lost in the world’s smallest shipwreck. I guess it’s just the romantic in me.
Salvatore Babones: Romney versus realonomy: A peek inside the bubble
In the real economy – the place where the 99% live and work – it’s hard to take Mitt Romney’s plan seriously; but let’s try to make sense of it anyway, unhindered by logic, arithmetic or the laws of time, space and gravity.
Salvatore Babones: European Austerity: Who Should Pay?
Europe’s big banks and vulture hedge funds should pay the price for austerity, not government workers and the poor.
Salvatore Babones: Austerity is not the Answer; Employment is the Answer
Austerity is a political decision, not an economic one. It benefits the few at the expense of the many.
Salvatore Babones: Federal Workers Should Not Have to Pay for the Social Security Tax Cuts
Federal workers have it hard enough without Congress playing politics with their paychecks and pensions.
Salvatore Babones: To Grow the Realonomy, Tax and Spend
“Tax and spend.” Those three dirty words are now the key to economic recovery in America’s Realonomy.
Salvatore Babones: The Biggest Tax Cut of All
By defunding the IRS Congress has virtually eliminated the audit threat for the wealthy, in effect handing dishonest individuals a massive tax cut.
Salvatore Babones: Make the Payroll Tax Cut Permanent
Congress should stop playing politics with the payroll tax cut and make it permanent by extending Social Security taxes to everyone.
Salvatore Babones: Making the Payroll Tax Cut Revenue-Neutral
All workers should pay Social Security taxes, including those with six, seven, and eight figure incomes.