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Article by John on November 9th, 2009 at 5:25 pm Now here is some legislation I can get behind. An up to $3500 itemized deduction for pet care expenses. We give tax deductions and credits for people having children. Seems to me we should use tax policy to help people care for pets too. They are important too! As much as I favor this, the chance of this legislation passing is about the same as successfully [...]
Article by John on October 16th, 2009 at 9:24 am Bail out the rich. Fail to regulate corporations. Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements. Do not facilitate unionization of workers. Allow big corporations to control the media. Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries. Ignore environmental priorities. Keep taxes low. Deficit spend on the military. Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures. And expect things to get better. Related articles by Zemanta Les Leopold: Why Our [...]
Article by John on April 19th, 2009 at 5:45 pm April 11, 2009–A New Way Forward organized bailout protests around the country. Locals hit Portland's Pioneer Square to protest our tax dollars being given to greedy Banksters. Colleen Lindsay and Mike Ellison at Bank Bailout Protest Photos courtesy of Rich var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/519e4fbe-4dfe-4348-b48e-ccdc1a244345\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2Vjb25vbWljLWp1c3RpY2Uvc2Fjay1nb2xkLW1hbnMvPHdwdGI%2BU2FjayBHb2xkTWFuczx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZGVtb2NyYWN5Zm9ydmFuY291dmVyLm9yZzx3cHRiPkRlbW9jcmFjeSBmb3IgVmFuY291dmVy”;
Article by John on April 4th, 2009 at 9:07 am Given the state of the Federal budget deficit, this just makes me sick (from Think Progress): Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) have a $250 billion proposal to cut estate taxes for the children of multi-millionaires even more than George W. Bush already did, and it’s attracting a disturbing amount of support. Their $250 billion proposal would raise the estate tax exemption [...]
Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us. Regulations did not just magically appear one day. They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past. Reagan [...]
Article by John on March 21st, 2009 at 9:04 am Image via Wikipedia Being a tax professional, I have to deal with client situations concerning a “little” cheating. This video describes what happens when people think that they will not get caught. It is too late for the Madoffs, Stanfords and Ken Lays of the world but perhaps the rest of us can learn something from this. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/57\/Spies_Like_Us_-_Cheating_on_test.png","http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheating","http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/0a4d1ce4-497b-4135-bffb-99a7f9a24596\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var [...]
Article by missy on March 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure. So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it: SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media. The Richardson who [...]
Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am On Hank Paulson’s bald head. When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...] | |
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