Paul Caron reports that the United States tax system is more progressive than France, Germany, Belgium and the UK. No doubt my friends on the left, tax bloggers Linda Beale and James Maule, and those of their ilk, will find a way to recast the study and the charts below as evidence of a right wing [...]
Tags: Politics of Taxes · Tax Policy
Listen to left-lurching tax law professor and tax blogger Linda Beale wax indignant about Greece’s austerity program (emphasis is mine): The austerity demands, in order for a sovereign nation to pay back its debt to mostly big banks that lent money recklessly in the leadup to the financial crisis, make no sense at all. If [...]
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Tax law professor and blogger Linda Beale chimes in on the Inequality Tax: I’ve often argued here that vast inequality is harmful to democracy, and that the kind of unequal society that we have today, reflected the Gilded Age of yore, is especially worrisome. Much of what is happening in this country that threatens freedom [...]
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Our left-wing tax blogger friends James Maule and Linda Beale avidly support the Occupy Wall Street movement. Together, Maule and Beale have written dozens of posts about out how middle-class conservatives – tea partiers, in particular – have been victimized by right-wing lies about taxes. Well, the folks at Daily Intel have polled 50 Occupy [...]
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WebCPA reports that Senators John McCain, R-Ariz., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C., introduced legislation Thursday allowing multinational corporations to repatriate their foreign earnings at a reduced tax rate: The bipartisan bill, known as the Foreign Earnings Reinvestment Act, aims to trigger the flow of $1 trillion from the foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based multinationals at a reduced [...]
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This is my brief rebuttal to Linda Beale’s response to my post Tax Lies Some Left Wing Bloggers Like to Ignore. The Charge that I”Manufactured” the Story About Bernie Sanders’ Tax Lie Tax Blogger Linda Beale doesn’t like the fact that I pointed out that an independent fact checking organization determined that left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders misled the public about [...]
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Tax blogger and tax law professor Linda Beale has responded to my recent post Tax Lies Some Left Wing Bloggers Like to Ignore. It’s a little long, but please read the entire thing. I will be posting my response in the next couple of days. Bookmark & Share:
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