Canadian Federation of Independent Business wants municipal politicians to take the CFIB Taxpayer Pledge, committing to three principles: 1. Property Tax Fairness: “A commitment to narrow the current gap between commercial and […]
Solution for continued wealthcare
Report: A quarter of U.S. millionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than some in middle class, by Lori Montgomery, Washington Post, October 12/11 “A quarter of millionaires in the United States […]
Today’s built-to-loot enterprises show their style
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good (www.inequality.org). Chuck is also a co-founder of Wealth for […]
"You can talk at your own town hall meeting"
Terrance Heath produces an excellent piece on the American ‘Tea Party’ movement brought to life by the Koch brothers and other plutocrats and apparatchiks. Is The Tea Party Over? Maybe. – published by […]
Finding tax sources that fit today’s economy
Financial Transaction Tax: Making the financial sector pay its fair share Brussels, 28 September 2011 – Today the Commission has presented a proposal for a financial transaction tax in the 27 Member […]
Keep business happy: no red tape, no taxes
Some believe that businesses should pay no taxes and HST serves part of that purpose. A remaining aim of business is to pay no income tax but, because ruling parties find that […]
Insatiable appetites
An apothegm repeated often in programs treating alcohol abuse: One drink is too many and one thousand is not enough. The statement also applies to business leaders and their lobbyists. No matter the subsidies […]
Corporate tax dodging out of control?
Interesting report from the Institute for Policy Studies in the USA: “Guns don’t kill people, the old saw goes. People do. “By the same token, corporations don’t dodge taxes. People do. The […]
Real messages of the HST vote
In response to the vote rejecting the massive shift in consumption taxes from business to consumers, Christy Clark seems to have learned nothing, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon only a little. Falcon today […]
Sharing the tax burden with poor people
David Wiegel, writing at Slate.com says, “Republicans have finally found a group they want to tax: poor people.” The Wall Street Journal asked former Utah Governor and Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman if […]
Enormous resources devoted to moving income to tax havens
HST, BC Liberal’s generous gift to the corporatocracy, is having much less benefit for British Columbia’s economy than pretended by governing politicians. Why? Because, like all mega-corps, the largest companies in BC, […]
Spin, misinformation and disservice to regular citizens
Corporate media mouthpieces have been quick to deride Warren Buffett for his call to stop coddling the mega-rich. Michael Smyth, perhaps trying to protect his tenure at the top dog, lifted his […]
"It used to be that asking how much the wars cost was unpatriotic."
True cost of Afghan, Iraq wars is anyone’s guessBy Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — When congressional cost-cutters meet later this year to decide on trimming the federal budget, the […]
Mega-rich coddled long enough, says one of them
Warren Buffett, with $50 billion, is the world’s third richest man according to Forbes. Monday, he urged U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the move would not reduce investments […]
BC Liberals guided by hidden interests
Be afraid, British Columbians. Be very afraid. The big business lobby was the guiding hand behind Gordon Campbell’s introduction of HST. The aim: to relieve giant multinationals from paying tax in this […]
"Shiny Happy Corporate People"
By RJ Eskow, ourfuture.org “Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people.” He did not go on to sing that […]
Psychologically-constructed monsters under the bed
An articulate piece worth a complete read at Aljazeera. Tea Party Terminators by Cliff Schecter, President of Libertas, LLC and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. “. . . After its humble […]
10 big reasons to feel good about taxes
(Click here for 96 more everyday reasons) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said it best: “Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.” More specifically, taxes are the price we pay for the […]
They who pay little now want to pay less
Here is a followup to our story Bringing good things to life — like no taxes. Once more we see the capacity of mega-corporations to reduce or avoid income taxes. ProPublica combined […]
Bringing good things to life like no taxes
Rafe Mair likes to remind citizens that when preference for private power generation became BC Liberal policy, they talked about “Run-of-the-River” projects. The implication was that small, benign installations would be community […]
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Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…