More tax cuts aren’t the answer
Our opinion: America is going deeper into debt while it gives tax breaks it can’t afford to those who need them least. Ten years ago, then-President George W. Bush sold America on his tax cuts — not a...
View ArticleA down-to-earth lesson in taxes
Our opinion: A move by airlines to turn a consumer tax break into a corporate windfall gives the lie to the notion of tax hikes as economic stimulus. Thank the nation’s major airlines for bringing some...
View ArticlePlease, sir, I want to pay some more
Billionaire Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest men, has renewed his call for higher taxes on wealthy people, outlining his case in a piece in the New York Times. Buffett urges Congress to do...
View ArticleHow about offsets for tax cuts?
Eric Cantor’s insistence that disaster aid be offset by making more budget cuts is an absurd position that obliterates the idea of being “one nation”, says Senator Bernie Sanders in USA Today. Maybe we...
View ArticleBefore program cuts impose wealth tax
Raising the tax rate for the richest Americans, what President Obama has called the “Buffett rule,” is an important milestone, say Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott in the Los Angeles Times, but it’s...
View ArticleIf you’re rich, you’re a ‘job creator’?
The term “job creators” perpetuates a myth that merits rigorous examination, says John Paul Rollert in Salon. “The current ‘job creators’ rhetoric,” Rollert says, “seems to elevate a group of people...
View ArticleWashington’s super failure
Our opinion: The inability of the supercommittee to forge a plan to further cut the deficit over 10 years is just another example of the dysfunction in Washington brought on largely Republican refusal...
View ArticleIn Kansas, no more taxes on the rich
Come 2013, professionals, farms and rich investors in Kansas won’t pay income tax under a recent overhaul of the state’s law. That will leave employees, some retirees and people with only small...
View ArticleBut wait, there’s more
Our opinion: The stakes are too high for this presidential election to hinge on the rosiest sales pitch. Voters need to read the fine print. Political conventions, and the campaigns that follow them,...
View ArticleToo soon for a tax cut
Our opinion: The state’s fiscal house needs to be in much better order before it talks about tax breaks. We’d all love a tax break, but as wonderful as the Family Tax Relief Act sounds, New York can’t...
View ArticleGive this cut a close look
Our opinion: The governor’s property tax cut strategy deserves real analysis by the state Legislature, not just an election year pass. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to freeze property taxes for two...
View ArticleTax cuts or education?
Our opinion: As the Legislature reviews the governor’s budget, it needs to consider whether short-term tax relief is worth the cost to children’s education. The big question confronting the Legislature...
View ArticleStop starving our schools
Our opinion: State leaders need to think about children’s futures, not just their own reelection prospects. The question for state leaders as they attempt to craft a budget hasn’t changed in the two...
View ArticleTrump’s budget is bad fiscal snake oil
Despite the hype coming from the White House, President Donald Trump’s budget proposal has all the makings of a scam, promising huge cuts to minor programs that will do little to cover increased...
View ArticleTax plan a major giveaway for rich
From assurances that his tax cuts will not add to the nation’s debt to proposing tax breaks for the wealthiest, there are many “dumb ideas” in President Donald Trump’s tax plan, but the most egregious...
View ArticleEditorial: A budget built on fantasy
Our opinion: Congress must produce a more responsible, compassionate budget than the reckless, unrealistic proposal the president offers. Give credit where it’s due: President Donald Trump’s first...
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