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 | Two things are certain in life, death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin Well Ben, you are right about life and taxes, but you are not correct about death and taxes. If you die in 2010 no matter how big a nest egg you have accumulated there is no estate tax. Nada. And your heirs will receive all of your wealth tax-free. There is no [...] This is what I’d like to see. A political party named the “other 95%” that get media time in proportion to their percentage of the population. Earliest tax freedom day in 42 years and there are tax protests? Where are the protests about permanent, unjustifiable war? Banks that are holding us hostage? Free trade agreements that undermine the [...] Even if the Washington State budget wasn’t busted, it is unfair and bad policy to allow Oregon residents an exemption from sales taxes in Washington. Oregon does not allow Washington residents an exemption from their income tax. It is also unlikely that very many Oregon residents actually travel to Washington to purchase merchandise given that their state is sales tax free. Another thing that [...] This graphic to the right doesn’t make one proud to be a Washingtonian. And a big part of the reason is Washington, like Florida, has no state income tax. So the sales taxes, the property taxes and all the other “taxes” just keep climbing on the poor while the rich get richer. Oregon needs a sales tax and they need to use some [...] Remember when the Bush Administration promised us that peace, prosperity and a pony for each and every American would result from their massive tax cuts? Sadly, we didn’t get the pony, despite the horseshit rhetoric. What we got was one of the worst recessions in history, with job losses outdoing all previous downturns save for the Great Depression itself. For the first time [...] But Republicans will find some way to blame the victim, or labor unions, or both: The Rand researchers examined the economic performance of 38 industries from 1987 through 2005, in an attempt to assess the economic impact of “excess” growth in health care costs on U.S. industries. Excess growth is defined as the increase in health care costs that exceeds the overall growth [...] From the Wall Street Journal: The nation’s wealth gap is widening amid an uproar about lofty pay packages in the financial world. Executives and other highly compensated employees now receive more than one-third of all pay in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Social Security Administration data – without counting billions of dollars more in pay that remains off [...] |      | ||||
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