This week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) offered its solution for jumpstarting the lagging economy -- more government spending. EPI's President, Lawrence Mishel advocated a new tax-and-spend plan to the tune of "$500 billion or more in government spending, employment tax credits...
With a budget gap of more than $2 billion, New York State is leaving no stone unturned to find ways to bring in more money. One newly revealed attempt is a mandatory new license plates which will cost $25 (up from $15). Adding insult to injury, the fee is being justified a public safety issue . There's...
If you heard it once during the 2008 presidential campaign, you heard it a thousand times: Barack Obama will not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Obama made the pledge most emphatically in New Hampshire, where people live free and die knowing they paid low taxes. "I can make...
"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
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