by Steven Hill It’s Americans’ favorite day — April 15, Tax Day! In the land of “No taxation without representation,” we Americans throw a fit over how much we fork over to the government, which taps into related complaints over government waste, budget deficits and ...
When some people appear beyond help because of addiction or other circumstances they can’t control, family members have been known to stage an intervention. Congress and President Biden need an intervention as their addiction to spending exceeds anything seen in history. In his State of ...
CHARLESTON — The state Senate, after a couple of days of delays, passed a bill representing pay raises for some state employees and another phasing out taxes on Social Security benefits. The bills are key components of what could shape up as the state’s general revenue budget. The ...
In an analysis released this week, the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department admitted that they had been wrong with an earlier estimate of $390 billion in additional tax revenues coming in during the next decade as a result of the $80 billion IRS funding boost in President ...
by Ingrid Robeyns “Every billionaire is a policy failure.” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez exemplified this motto when she entered politics and famously wore the slogan “Tax the rich” on her gown to the Met Gala. Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire and owner of the outdoor apparel company ...
There’s a neurotic need in the right-leaning media to declare that California is going down. The future belongs to Texas and Florida, where “woke” is a discouraging word — and climate change is somebody else’s problem, if it is a problem. California has lost population in each of ...