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Boehner Claims Compromise on Payroll Tax Cut Extension

22 December 2011

As if we didn’t need further evidence that Congress is phoning it in these days … House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) backtracked Thursday afternoon and announced a “compromise” two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, two days after the House voted to reject it. Let me break this down for you. First, to the average taxpayer, [...]

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Perry Wants You to Know that Romney is Rich: Do You Care?

27 October 2011

Let’s say that you have a shot at your dream job. You’ve done your homework, you’ve put in the hours, you’ve managed to get through the interview. There’s just one more thing: your tax return. Your potential employer has asked to you to disclose your tax return with the understanding that the information on the [...]

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Sarah Palin Emails Show Discord Over Oil Tax

12 June 2011

This week, the big political news (other than the continuing saga of Weiner-gate) was the release of Sarah Palin’s emails. The emails – about 24,000 of them – were distributed by state of Alaska in response to Freedom of Information Act requests filed by news organizations during the 2008 presidential race. To be fair, I [...]

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Tax Trivia: Tanning Tax

16 January 2011

We have a winner! See the correct answer in the comments. Our next tax trivia question for the giveaway is: Social media has changed the way that politicians interact with the public. This year, Sen. John McCain made news when he exchanged tweets with which “celebrity” over the new tanning tax? The first correct answer [...]

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Do celebs influence tax policy?

18 June 2010

In light of my recent post about Snooki and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tweeting tax, I wondered: Do celebs influence tax policy? (Psst, spoiler: I kind of think they do in that they get people talking. But what do you think?)

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Who Wants to Raise Taxes? Bueller…? Bueller….?

12 August 2008

Ben Stein may be known best by my generation knows as the best as the economics teacher in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (“Bueller…. Bueller….?). But he is also an attorney, former presidential speechwriter (for Nixon and Ford) and regular newspaper columnist for the New York Times. Stein’s political beliefs generally tilt towards the [...]

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Cindy McCain’s Tax Returns (Kind Of) Released

27 May 2008

Among pressure to prove that there was nothing to hide, Senator John McCain and his wife, Cindy, announced last week that, despite earlier comments that they would not release Ms. McCain’s tax info, they would do so. The information was made public and is available on McCain’s web site. Senator McCain had previously released his [...]

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McCain Releases Tax Returns, Sort Of

20 April 2008

It’s 2004 all over again. A presidential candidate has released his own tax returns – but not that of his spouse. The GOP cries… ok? Yep. This week, Sen. John McCain and Republican presidential candidate released his 2007 tax returns – without information about his wife. Cindy McCain filed separately, something that they have continued [...]

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Do You Owe Uncle Sam for Reading This?

21 September 2007

Not right now. But there’s a chance that you might in the future: the moratorium on an internet tax expires November 1. The moratorium is sometimes referred to as the Internet Tax Freedom Act, or ITFA. ITFA has been extended twice since 1998. It bans taxes on certain internet transactions at the federal level, but [...]

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