The past several years I’ve been coughing up $70 for a fancy edition of TurboTax, but that’s hardly protection from the tax code’s – and my own – obtuseness.
Author: Jason Hart
In Support of Tom Friedman
Fair readers, mark your calendars: this is the day I prove what a warm, fuzzy moderate I am. This is the day I agree with Thomas Friedman.
Soak the Rich, Week 7
Because seven is such a lucky number, many of you are thinking the seventh week of Soak the Rich is the one where we fill in the 2011 U.S. budget deficit – a $1.62 trillion gap – by cranking up taxes on big corporations. Many of you are 5.215% correct.
Soak the Rich: Caterpillar
A company that builds things which build other things while consuming fossil fuels? Caterpillar, prepare to be soaked!
I-P-A-B spells “Death Panel”
Sarah Palin’s reportedly ignorant belief that Obamacare cuts cost by way of a “death panel” of bureaucrats passing down coverage decrees is nearly as notorious as Palin herself.
Soak the Rich: McDonald’s
Last week alone we made evil bank JP Morgan Chase and evil non-union retailer Wal-Mart pay their fair share, and there are plenty of other corporations Sherrod Brown would love to teach a lesson in the 488 that remain. Next up, the company responsible for rampant obesity and half of May’s new jobs!
New Albany Begs for Bargaining Reform
Quick: name an industry where employees get two types of pay increase, neither of which is tied to merit. If you came up with an answer that wasn’t “public education,” let me know.
Sherrod Finds Space to Obama’s Left
Though President Obama agrees with Senator Brown that the best way to create jobs is to take a pile of money from job creators and dump it into a special-interest pit, Obama’s belief in big government may have found a limit.
Good News for Wisconsin Taxpayers
Let’s not forget the environment in which Republicans passed Walker’s reform bill: the unions took over Wisconsin’s capital while elected Democrats fled the state.
Soak the Rich, Week 6
After six weeks testing Sherrod Brown’s trademark fiscal policy – don’t cut spending, soak The Rich! – we’ve punished a dozen dirty, profitable American employers. Assuming zero negative outcomes, Sherrod’s strategy is starting to have a worthwhile impact on this year’s $1.62 trillion U.S. budget deficit.