Taxes

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McCain's gassy tax relief
An economics and transportation expert evaluates the presidential hopeful's plan to suspend the gas tax: "It's a terrible idea."
What every freelancer should know
Tired of getting gouged on your taxes? Sensing an impending mental breakdown? Here are tips for the self-employed, from someone who feels your pain.
The politics of an economic nightmare
No U.S. leader wants to admit how bad the damage may get from the one-two punch of the credit crunch and housing slump.
Mike Huckabee wants to abolish the IRS
His loopy tax plan would be an economic disaster -- but it's more honest than the schemes being peddled by the establishment Republican candidates.
Quote of the day
Well, at least someone's still enthusiastic about the economy.
Why Democrats are afraid to raise taxes on the rich
Could it have something to do with the recent affection of hedge-fund managers for the Democratic Party?
Hillary Clinton's smooth-talk express
Her campaign-trail game is in top form and her lead in the polls is widening. But will voters think she's on cruise control?
Back by popular demand: Taxing the rich
Large majorities in the world's richest countries just don't want to take it anymore.
Time for a "war on terror" tax?
Lieberman floats the idea of raising taxes to pay for the war he's helping Bush wage in Iraq.
I think my boss has been cheating on his taxes
I'm the controller of his company -- should I report him?
Save a little now, pay a lot later
Republicans in the House and Senate reach agreement on a tax plan.
"A fiscal day of reckoning"
The job of a president is to solve problems now. Except when it isn't.
How globalization trips up the tax man
The free trade tax: The poor get poorer.
The IRS strikes at transparency -- and at the poor
Why release data on audits for the rich when you can be robbing the poor of their tax refunds instead?
Who among us does not love tax cuts?
The holidays are coming, and Congress is in a giving mood.
The culture war over Katrina
Right-wingers point to blacks looting and see a Hobbesian war of all against all. Liberals see a failure of civilization to help the poorest among us.
Is it time to raise taxes?
Hurricane Katrina will send the federal budget deeper into the red. Is it finally time for a sane fiscal policy?
First Social Security, then taxes
Even some Republicans say the time isn't right for extending the president's tax cuts.
"Perfectly Legal" by David Cay Johnston
A Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter argues that the rich have ruthlessly rigged the tax system against the rest of us. Aren't you shocked?
A nation of scared sheep
Why don't Americans care that Bush may have lied to them about Iraq? The answer lies deep in our reptilian brains.
Goofus Al and Gallant George
In 2000, the media hounded Al Gore over alleged minor exaggerations. So why does it give Bush a pass when he doesn't tell the truth about life-and-death matters like Iraq and tax policies?
Gimme tax shelter
The IRS and SEC continue to let accountants pocket a share of the taxes they save corporate clients, sanctioning a billion-dollar industry devoted to cheating the government -- legally.
Voodoo economics: The sequel
Bush's vast tax cut will fatten the piggies in their starched white shirts and create huge deficits. But the spineless Democrats don't have the will to stop it.
March of the "lucky duckies"
How did a callous and inaccurate argument for taxing the poor become part of the conservative agenda and the White House playbook?
White House economic policy: Confusion
Stephen Friedman was set to be the next chair of Bush's National Economic Council. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Clearly, the man has enemies.
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