Tax Reform
"Frankly, an economy where my receptionist pays a lot higher tax rate than I do does not strike me as a just economy."
-Warren Buffett, billionaire
Headlines
- 03/17/10 - Junk Food Taxes and Anti-Obesity Initiatives
- 04/19/09 - It's a Mugging: Our National Wealth Is Getting Handed Over to the Bloated Rich
- 04/16/09 - Faux-Populist "Tea Parties" Ignore Tax Breaks for Overpaid CEOs
- 04/15/09 - Tax Day: You Pay Your Taxes - Why Don't the Rich Pay Their Share?
- 02/27/09 - Krugman: Obama's Budget Looks Very, Very Good
- 02/25/09 - Obama Is Right to Take on the Very Rich
- 01/12/09 - Why You Should Be Screaming for Higher Taxes
- 11/01/08 - Reversal of Fortune
- 10/30/08 - Economic Meltdown: The Oncoming Trillion Dollar Credit Card Debt Tsunami
- 10/22/08 - Any Pay Cuts on Wall Street Yet?
- 10/09/08 - Progressive & Pissed Off Voters' Guide to the Economy
- 10/04/08 - Grassroots Opposition to the Bailout: The Revolution that Failed
- 10/03/08 - Shut Down $23 Trillion Dollars in Offshore Tax Havens & Tax Financial Speculators: A Global New Deal Instead of a Wall Street Bailout
- 10/01/08 - Eye-Opening Thoughts About the Bailout's Defeat
- 10/01/08 - The IRS Leans Harder on Small Businesses
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians
to support:
- Progressive tax policies that create fairness for low-income communities and the middle class
- A repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy
- An increase in earned income tax credits for the poor.
- Reducing the federal debt while adequately funding non-military domestic programs.
- A federal micro tax of .1% on the purchase of stocks, bonds, securities & currency, coupled with a federal income tax rate where the first $100,000 of income was tax-free.
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Micro Tax
A federal micro tax of .1% on the purchase of stocks, bonds, securities and currency, coupled with a federal income tax rate where the first $100,000 of income was tax-free, would raise $1.2 trillion annually as opposed to the $400 billion raised currently from taxing those making $100,000 a year or less.
Resources
- The
50-Year Swindle
A research article from Progressive.com looking at 50 years of unfair taxation. - Wobbled
By Wealth?
An op-ed from Paul Krugman examining how small changes in our tax code could lead to significantly more equitable taxation. - You
Say Tax Reform
I Say Tax Hike
The New York Times editorial table examines recent Democratic initiatives towards balancing national taxation.
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