Trying to Understand Trump’s Finances Is Taxing
Reading Time: 19 minutes Martin Sheil, a former IRS investigator, walks us through what we know about Trump’s taxes.
Tax Advice from the Best — Conmen, Crooks, Comics, and Geniuses
Reading Time: 9 minutes Are you in pain from the IRS? Does Donald Trump share your pain? He doesn’t share much else, it seems, except his opinions. For instance, he thinks the IRS is “stupid.” Is he right? Check out what these characters have to say: Al Capone, Albert Einstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Mae West, and many others.
Why the High Hopes for Trump’s Tax Returns Are Misplaced
Reading Time: 3 minutes President Donald Trump’s foes have high hopes for what his tax returns might show. They should scale back their expectations because nothing we know about Trump would indicate that the information the documents contain will be comprehensive or accurate.
Funny, Wise Quotations on Taxes
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are you in pain from the IRS? Well, you’re in good company. Check out what these characters have to say about paying taxes (or not!): Al Capone, Albert Einstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Mae West, and many others.
Who Will Save Social Security When the GOP Tries to Break It?
Reading Time: 5 minutes For 80 years Social Security has been keeping its promises to the American people. It has accomplished this goal in no small part by maintaining its independence from the federal budget. Could that now be in jeopardy?
Funny, Wise Quotations on Taxes
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are you in pain from the IRS? Well, you’re in good company. Check out what these characters have to say about paying taxes — Al Capone, Albert Einstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Mae West, and many others.
Funny, Wise Quotations on Taxes
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are you in pain from the IRS? Well, you’re in good company. Check out what these characters have to say about paying taxes — Al Capone, Albert Einstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Mae West, and many others.
Essay: GOP Aims to Shield Corporations from Offshore Taxes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Republican lawmakers’ push for “territorial taxation” is just another bid to help American business giants avoid paying their share of corporate taxes via foreign holdings.
Can Big Coal Pull Off Another Dirty Trick?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big Coal, legally mandated to clean up mining-operation messes left behind in several states, could end up sticking taxpayers with the bill for its dirty deeds.
A Businesslike Approach to the Federal Mess
Reading Time: 7 minutes Former American Airlines chairman Bob Crandall with some ideas on taxes, the economy, and more. Not what you’d expect….
Reader Comment: The Rich and the Power of Myth
Reading Time: 7 minutes Boy, do we have smart readers. Here’s another good one—reflecting on Nick Hanauer’s TED talk about job creation, the rich, myths, propaganda, and much more.
Rich Guy on How Middle Class Are the Job Creators
Reading Time: 1 minute In this presentation, rich guy Nick Hanauer makes some simple yet profound points about whether keeping taxes low on rich people produce jobs.
Comedy and Reality Break: Bill Hicks Classic on War, Taxes, Media and Freedom
Reading Time: 1 minute In this classic bit from early 90s, the comedian/commentator Bill Hicks weighs in on the First Gulf War, George HW Bush, manipulating the masses, and more.
Take The Quiz: Who Pays More Taxes—GE or NYT?
Reading Time: 5 minutes GE is spitting mad at the New York Times for reporting that it paid no taxes last year. Let’s let these two corporations go to the mat in a tax matchup.
Getting Real on Budgets—and Who Won’t Budge
Reading Time: 4 minutes Now’s the time to shake off the slumber and look—gasp—look at who’s really benefitting from the shutdown threat.
Take the Quiz: Qaddafi & Immelt–Good or Bad?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here’s a quiz: Embattled Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi: Good or bad? How about GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt? Here are your answers, straight from the top: Qaddafi, way bad. And Immelt? Good guy, business and civic leader. Should be a key adviser to the president. On Qaddafi, we already knew he was a bad Read More
WORTH READING: No One Need Apply, Best Place to Work?, Where to Get Sick
Reading Time: 1 minute Corporations are hitting record profits this year so where are all the jobs? Despite massive tax incentives for job creation, companies like Verizon and GE are cutting back their workforce rather than increasing it. Perhaps it’s time to provide them with some disincentives to turn the tide for America’s unemployed.
Worth Reading: English Lessons, Very Rich, Legal Murder, Chinese Wall
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the recent events in the Middle East and the union busting in Wisconsin, Americans can learn something useful about fighting back from our neighbors across the pond. In the UK, a group of ordinary citizens decided to disrupt business as usual: By spreading the word on Twitter and holding nation-wide protests of the largest cell phone provider Vodafone, they demanded the company pay up for billions in taxes owed.