Nov19
Citizens for Tax Justice
Leading up to the election, prominent Democrats like Rep. Chris Van Hollen, ranking member of the House Budget Committee, were pushing to renew the payroll tax holiday in 2013, an idea that seemed all but dead…
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Nov18
Citizens for Tax Justice
We’ve known for a while that government subsidies and tax breaks for sports stadiums are a raw deal for taxpayers. But a new book by Harvard University urban planning professor Judith Grant Long reveals that the costs are …
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Nov17
Citizens for Tax Justice
There have been a lot of contradictory statements coming from Washington these days about how employment levels would be affected by President Obama’s proposal to allow the expiration of the Bush-era income tax rate reductions for the …
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Nov14
Exec who allegedly enabled fraud runs chase’s effort to compensate foreclosure victims
on November 14th, 2012 at 8:00 am
By Paul Kiel — ProPublica
An executive who the Justice Department says facilitated a scheme to defraud Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now spearheading JPMorgan Chase’s role in the government’s program to compensate victims of the big banks’ abusive foreclosure
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Nov08
Citizens for Tax Justice
If Tuesday’s election was a referendum on taxes, what voters rejected was the tired old argument that cutting taxes is good for an ailing economy, and that is a welcome development. For his part, President Obama has said …
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