Taxes

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  • 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.
  • Profits before patriotism

    How the Homeland Security bill rewarded corporate tax dodgers.
  • It's the war, stupid

    Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
  • Too little, too late?

    With the Iraq vote behind them, Democrats are desperately trying to shift the public's focus to the staggering economy. But time is running out.
  • The White House's credibility problem

    His company evaded taxes while feeding at the federal trough and doing business with the axis of evil -- no wonder Dick Cheney is still in hiding.
  • Antisocial security

    Republicans who argue that savings accounts can save Social Security are hiding the risks -- and the true costs.
  • Huge corporation, can you spare a dime?

    U.S. corporations swarm to tax-free Delaware like flies to honey. But with a huge budget deficit looming, the state's chief justice is suggesting big business lend a hand.
  • Death to the AMT!

    Silicon Valley gets political as an obscure tax clause strikes deep at the wallets of the rich and the middle class.
  • Welcome to my world

    By Camille Paglia
  • Freshen up your $1,000 tax cut, hon?

    What those oft-mentioned waitresses say about Bush's plan.
  • Why capitalists should like estate taxes

    From Adam Smith to Thomas Jefferson, lovers of freedom have demanded that social privilege be earned -- not inherited.
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