Tag: tax policy
member name: Gary Gentry
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April 25, 2009 12:21 PM EDT --
The Wall Street Journal's Gary Fields has produced another article demonstrating a lack of understanding of basic economics, perhaps even basic math. The article http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/article/106934/Wealth-Less-Effect-Earning-Well-Feeling-Otherwise . . .
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October 16, 2008 04:01 PM EDT --
My mother lived for 30 years in Sun City, AZ, an "adults only" community a few miles west of Phoenix. Founded in . . .
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June 20, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
The Arizona Republic ran a side bar article about recently released FY 2003 state Department . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
None of the Americans who have risen to positions of wealth and power did so purely on their own merit, as most of them (and the Republican Party) like to believe. The rugged individual who alone . . .
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December 29, 2007 04:22 PM EST --
During the past seven years, there has been some modest economic recovery in the USA. During that time the Fed kept interest rates at the lowest level the nation has seen in half a century. . . .
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September 22, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
Does anybody remember the Keating Five? From Wikipedia:
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of . . .
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January 27, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
I listened to a presidential candidate today. He went into the now obligatory sob story about an individual who had approached him at a rally. The man was working two jobs to pay for . . .
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September 06, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Republicans have been enormously successful in convincing Americans of the biggest economic myth of modern times - that cutting taxes actually increases government revenue. It's counter-intuitive; . . .
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February 10, 2009 10:24 AM EST --
My son, a middle manager at a medium sized manufacturing firm (yes, there are still some in America) grosses about $65,000 per year. He pays $4,030 in FICA tax, or 6.2%. His employer pays about another . . .
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May 07, 2006 02:38 PM EDT --
I am mystified why no one has disputed the GOP assertion that tax cuts have led to the improvement in the economy since Sept 11, 2001. These assertions totally ignore the fact that interest rates during . . .
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January 03, 2006 02:56 PM EST --
Our economy grows (or doesn't) for a variety of reasons. Taxes are a factor in business decisions, and therefore a factor in economic growth, but not the only (or even the primary) factor. Those . . .
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