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Tax Day reveals a major split in how � Joe Biden � and � Donald Trump � would govern: The presidential candidates have conflicting ideas about how much to reveal about their own finances and the ...
by Associated Press
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 02:34 PM PDT
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By Karen Rubin, News-Photos-Features.com, editor@news-photos-features.com No doubt you are bitching right about now about taxes. Tax day, after all, is April 15. In election after election, the challenger always attacks based on tax rates – property...
by NewsPhotosFeatures
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 08:10 AM PDT
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In a 2004 interview on CNN, Donald Trump said, “The economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans.” He’s right. The history of the last thirty four years proves that Trump was correct. It’s weird to agree with Trump. I know. The...
by NebraskaDemocrat
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 06:07 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s campaign reported pulling in $50 million dollars at a megadonor extravaganza last weekend held by billionaire hedge fund investor, and longtime Trump supporter John Paulson at his ...
by Walter Einenkel
86 comments
on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 06:30 AM PDT
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The countdown to Tax Day is on! If you live in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota, Washington, or Wyoming and, like many of us, have not yet filed your taxes, I have some good...
by Susan Harley
6 comments
on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 12:24 PM PDT
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Generally speaking, I figure if the guys who’ve spent ungodly amounts of money to buy off politicians in return for tax cuts and deregulation that helps their businesses are mad about something, then it’s could very well be a good thing So, when I read...
by RickElia
11 comments
on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 05:18 AM PDT
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Jim Pillen and the GOP dominated Nebraska legislature have been on a tax cutting spree. During the 2023 legislative session, the Nebraska Republicans cut taxes by a whopping $3.1 billion over the next five years. In addition, most of the tax cuts were...
by NebraskaDemocrat
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on Tue Apr 02, 2024 at 07:27 AM PDT
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Many of the billionaires who claimed they were “sorry” they voted for Donald Trump in 2020, supported other Republican primary candidates this past year, and denounced Trump’s attempted insurrection are all being wooed back to the MAGA fold, according...
by Walter Einenkel
133 comments
on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:00 AM PDT
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I believe I just heard this on MSNBC, shortly before 1:00 pm EDT. I can’t be sure, because I was coming in from outside, and all I heard was “ . . . don’t want to contribute to Donald Trump’s legal fees.” I thought, What is he talking about? Then I...
by Just Saying
50 comments
on Wed Mar 27, 2024 at 10:17 AM PDT
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I don’t know why I always do this to myself, but once again I have put off updating my financial software so I can send the information to the accountant.
I’ll check in and make sure this ...
by vgranucci
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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“Where you spend your money says a lot about your values.” – Al Franken President Joe Biden has unveiled his proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year, and politics, being what they are, an editorial in the Washington Post rightly explained it has “zero...
by RickElia
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 05:38 AM PDT
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The April 15 deadline for filing federal income tax returns is fast approaching, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts�is back to remind�us just how unfair and unbalanced the nation’s tax ...
by Charles Jay
116 comments
on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 02:16 PM PDT
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Over the past 50 years, before the GOP went all in on fascism and isolationism, the most dramatic difference between Democrats and Republicans lurked in the driest of places: tax policies. Democrats essentially wanted to tax the rich to help the middle...
by sabrina haake
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 05:19 AM PDT
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Hat tip to Tom Sullivan at Digby’s place for posting a video from AOC explaining the new direct filing program at the I.R.S. Tax time is coming - but this year is different, depending on which state you live in. AOC tells you how you can file directly...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 09:34 AM PDT
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When Donald Trump came into office, he did so in an election that also gave Republicans a four-seat edge in the Senate and a whopping 47-seat advantage in the House. For two years, Republicans had ...
by Mark Sumner
107 comments
on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 10:30 AM PST
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Really ??? Do normal risk calculations apply to the Trumps ? For example, back in 2016 what did you think the odds were that Donald Trump would steamroll Jeb Bush and Chris Christie ? And then Hillary Clinton ? Earlier on, the Trump Hotels and Casino...
by BewareInfiltration
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on Thu Feb 29, 2024 at 01:50 PM PST
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Every few months the Republican Party threatens to shut down the federal government claiming the country is in massive debt and must tighten its spending belt by cutting social programs. In January Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:35 PM PST
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A new surve y from Navigator Research doesn’t just show how strongly voters feel about protecting Social Security and Medicare, but it also shows how much voters don’t trust Republican lawmakers ...
by Joan McCarter
74 comments
on Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 01:00 PM PST
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Even as post-pandemic inflation continues to fall, many Americans still feel the sting of high prices for basic goods, such as groceries. And Republicans are desperate to blame voter unease on President Joe Biden, particularly as consumer confidence...
by Kerry Eleveld
166 comments
on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 07:30 AM PST
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This isn’t much of a diary, but I just wanted to highlight this great NYT opinion piece about filing taxes in the US. It’s yet another story of large, private companies in the US devouring good government for billions in profit, and then spending...
by bstotts
14 comments
on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 08:30 AM PST
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