Tag Archives: tax loopholes

Obama announces economic plan, states he will not renew Bush tax cuts for the super-wealthy

As scheduled, Obama spoke about the economy in Cleveland today. While he formally unveiled the major new incentives and infrastructure projects that we discussed here last night, the big news came when he announced unequivocally that he would not support the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the super-wealthy. The statement was unexpected, as […]

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Hummer burial in Detroit

Today, as progressive groups from around the nation were massing in Detroit in preparation for tomorrow’s much anticipated U.S. Social Forum, the folks from Code Pink, together with Tyree Guyton and volunteers from the Heidelberg Project, came together to bury a burned-out Hummer. Here, from a May post on the Code Pink website, written on […]

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Closing tax loopholes for billionaires

I don’t have the time or desire to put together a long post tonight on how our American tax code is unnecessarily complicated, and favors the super-rich. To do it well would be a daunting task, and I’m not up for it at the moment. What I am up for, however, is passing along this […]

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