Category Archives: Taxes

Governor Bobby Jindal Handed His Hat, Shown The Door

After Louisiana Governor Howdy Doody dropped his proposal to eliminate the state’s income tax while increasing sales taxes by over 40 percent, he reiterated his support for the idea and asked the state legislature to tighten the rope around their … Continue reading
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Tax Season

Artist – Pat Bagley I highly recommend reading the Center on Budget and Policy Priority’s analysis of President Obama’s budget here. Particularly the part concerning Social Security. Their analysis details an accompanying increase in benefits for average recipients, a larger … Continue reading
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The War on Women Widens in North Dakota

By now you’ve probably heard that the governor of North Dakota signed three abortion bills into law, including one that bans abortions after just six weeks, but there is at least one aspect of this otherwise horrible mess I can … Continue reading
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Rand Paul Proposes A Flat Tax for Your Rights And Protections

In his interview with Fox Sunday, Chris Wallace asked Rand Paul if he would strike down DOMA on the grounds that the federal government is interfering in “a state matter,” not to be confused with the Mind-Your-Own-Fucking-Business laws that are … Continue reading
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Fingers Crossed

Artist – Adam Zyglis In other news, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has introduced a budget proposal that would pay for eliminating the state’s income and corporate taxes by raising sales taxes by 47 percent. There’s a Romney joke in there … Continue reading
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Chart of the Day

Here’s the consequences of the tax cuts included in Paul Ryan’s Path to Poverty 3.0 via Steve Benen. I put together the above chart to show the percentage change in after-tax income, but what I wanted to do was show … Continue reading
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The Path to Poverty 3.0 Has a $5.7 Trillion Hole In It

The Tax Policy Center has crunched the numbers and found that Paul Ryan would need to somehow account for $5.7 trillion in missing revenue to make up the tax cuts present in the third incarnation of the Path to Poverty. … Continue reading
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Don’t Spend it All in One Place

According to Citizens for Tax Justice, the tax cut unveiled by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker this week would afford the bottom 20% of the state a whopping 2 dollars. In his budget address this week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker followed … Continue reading
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Bobby Jindal Proposed a Really, Really Stupid Idea

What a terrible idea: Gov. Bobby Jindal is proposing to eliminate Louisiana’s income and corporate taxes and pay for those cuts with increased sales taxes, the governor’s office confirmed Thursday. The governor’s office has not yet provided the details of … Continue reading

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Republican Deficit Disorder

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has been making all the Sunday morning rounds today, and his repeated talking point is that “the tax debate is over,” settled business, and we need to get to the real problem with the debt … Continue reading

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