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The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget
Firedoglake —
... The debate revolved around President-elect Obama's potential plans to put off raising taxes on the very wealthy. Norquist begins the debate with the claim - I kid you not - that "the economy is in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006 you knew those tax increases were going to come in 2010." He insisted that, "The stock market began to collapse as soon as you recognize that those old tax rates were coming back." ...
David Sirota: The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The debate revolved around President-elect Obama's potential plans to put off raising taxes on the very wealthy. Norquist begins the debate with the claim - I kid you not - that "the economy is in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006 you knew those tax increases were going to come in 2010." He insisted that, "The stock market began to collapse as soon as you recognize that those old tax rates were coming back." Yes, because under "those old tax rates" - ie. Clinton-era tax rates - the economy was so much worse than it is today. ...
The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget
Open Left - Front Page —
... The debate revolved around President-elect Obama's potential plans to put off raising taxes on the very wealthy. Norquist begins the debate with the claim - I kid you not - that "the economy is in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006 you knew those tax increases were going to come in 2010." He insisted that, "The stock market began to collapse as soon as you recognize that those old tax rates were coming back." Yes, because under "those old tax rates" - ie. Clinton-era tax rates - the economy was so much worse than it is today. ...
David Sirota: In a Recession, Should States Raise Taxes Or Slash Spending?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... or postpone his proposed tax increases on the richest citizens or corporations - because while many have presented grandiose theories, no one has presented any compelling evidence that raising taxes on the very wealthy hurts the economy. ...
In a Recession, Should States Raise Taxes Or Slash Spending?
Open Left - Front Page —
... or postpone his proposed tax increases on the richest citizens or corporations - because while many have presented grandiose theories, no one has presented any compelling evidence that raising taxes on the very wealthy hurts the economy. ...
Gov. Paterson Is Either Deliberately Deceptive Or Grossly Uninformed
Open Left - Front Page —
... What's troubling about Paterson's regurgitating such nonsense about taxes - ie. that raising taxes on the super-rich drives people out of a state and hurts job growth and that New York loves taxing the rich - is that he (like other Democrats often do) is effectively validating the right-wing's most dishonest myths about taxes, and he's doing so at a time when ...
