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Republicans in the House and Senate reach agreement on a tax plan.
By Tim Grieve
May 10, 2006
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The job of a president is to solve problems now. Except when it isn't.
By Tim Grieve
May 4, 2006
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The free trade tax: The poor get poorer.
By Andrew Leonard
January 17, 2006
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Why release data on audits for the rich when you can be robbing the poor of their tax refunds instead?
By Tim Grieve
January 11, 2006
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The holidays are coming, and Congress is in a giving mood.
By Tim Grieve
December 8, 2005
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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.
By Alan Wolfe
September 3, 2005
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Hurricane Katrina will send the federal budget deeper into the red. Is it finally time for a sane fiscal policy?
By Aaron Kinney
September 2, 2005
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Even some Republicans say the time isn't right for extending the president's tax cuts.
By Tim Grieve
March 7, 2005
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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?
By Farhad Manjoo
February 9, 2004
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Why don't Americans care that Bush may have lied to them about Iraq? The answer lies deep in our reptilian brains.
By Louise Witt
July 9, 2003
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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?
By Eric Boehlert
July 1, 2003
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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.
By Arianna Huffington
February 12, 2003
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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.
By Farhad Manjoo
January 8, 2003
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How did a callous and inaccurate argument for taxing the poor become part of the conservative agenda and the White House playbook?
By Farhad Manjoo
December 21, 2002
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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.
By Anthony York
December 11, 2002
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How the Homeland Security bill rewarded corporate tax dodgers.
By Arianna Huffington
December 3, 2002
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Yes, the Democrats have serious problems. But without 9/11, they still would have trounced Bush and the Republicans.
By Gary Kamiya
November 7, 2002
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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.
By Eric Boehlert
October 24, 2002
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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.
By Arianna Huffington
August 6, 2002
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Republicans who argue that savings accounts can save Social Security are hiding the risks -- and the true costs.
By Ben Fritz
August 3, 2002
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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.
By Dave Lindorff
April 24, 2002
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Silicon Valley gets political as an obscure tax clause strikes deep at the wallets of the rich and the middle class.
By Damien Cave and Amy Standen
April 18, 2001
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By Camille Paglia
March 30, 2001
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What those oft-mentioned waitresses say about Bush's plan.
By King Kaufman
February 15, 2001
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From Adam Smith to Thomas Jefferson, lovers of freedom have demanded that social privilege be earned -- not inherited.
By Sam Fleischacker
February 15, 2001