Revolutionary lessons Nov 13, 2009
In 1848, the Communist League issued a set of "Demands of the Communist Party of Germany", renamed from the Spartacist Party, urging a unified German Republic, democratic suffrage, universal free education, arming of the people, a progressive income tax, limitations on inheritance, state ownership of banks and public utilities, transportation, mining and collectivization and modernization of agriculture. But the program was too radical for the liberal Frankfort Assembly. (Asia Times Online)
'Please, raise my taxes' (2) Nov 9, 2009
I'd impose a progressive income tax, dismantle the Senate, decriminalize and tax illegal drugs, reduce prison terms, get public schools and universities out of the sports business, consolidate school districts, consolidate local government services and create a public employees health care system - to name a few ideas. But that's just me. (St. Joseph Herald-Pallidium, MI)
Schaeuble, Reunification Negotiator, to Get Finance Post in Merkel Cabinet Oct 25, 2009
Solms advocates replacing the progressive income tax and its multitude of exemptions with three fixed brackets. International Posts. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Whitman to make gubernatorial bid official Sep 22, 2009
He is awaiting a report from a bipartisan commission that is set to recommend an overhaul, including flattening the state's progressive income tax structure and imposing a new type of business tax to capture many service-sector businesses that currently escape taxation. In an interview on CNBC last week, Whitman said out-of-control spending, not California's tax structure, is to blame for California's faltering finances. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Learning His Way in San Jose Sep 10, 2009
Having institutionalized envy in a steeply progressive income tax, California depends on 200,000 wealthy taxpayers for 25 percent of its revenue. The state ranks only behind liberal New York in the number of outward-bound moving vans. (Townhall.com)
Hynes launches guv bid with call to overhaul income taxes Sep 3, 2009
He says that would include a new progressive income tax that he contends will spare more than 90 percent of Illinoisans any tax increase. Hynes says Gov. 's proposal to increase income taxes 50 percent on everyone is unfair. (Crain's Chicago Business)
What the Growing Deficit Really Means Aug 26, 2009
We need to return to the progressive income tax levels this country used between 1930 and 1980, which ironically coincided with an America that became or WAS the best economic, military, social, and ethical force IN THE WORLD.. by cheerup91 August 25, 2009 9:59 PM EDT. (CBS News)
District 20 candidates lay out their platforms Aug 7, 2009
Friday August 07, 2009. Five out of eight candidates for the District 20 seat in the City Council hold hands at the Flushing Library on July 30. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | Aug 6, 2009
Progressive income tax benefits many ... Seems to me the Lord is in favor of a progressive income tax. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Transcript of a Conference Call on Staff-Level Agreement on First Review of Latvia's Stand-By Arrangement Jul 31, 2009
We feel in fact that a progressive income tax could be one of the elements in the fiscal adjustment ... Clearly, a progressive income tax needs to be designed very carefully and if the authorities will go that way, we would be able to help them in the design of this tax or the E.U. would be available to help in whatever technical need there is ... Question: On the specifics, the two that you mentioned were government wages and a progressive income tax. (IMF News)
Your views: Political footballs Jul 24, 2009
Did any of you ever hear of Social Security, the U.S. progressive income tax system, taxpayer-paid public education or subsidized community colleges. How about food stamps, low-income housing, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Medicare, Medicaid, FEMA storm relief, federal grants for everything you can think of and the many other government socialistic programs. (Florida Today)
Matt Nye, a Brevard politics game-changer Jul 12, 2009
"The progressive income tax is the philosophy of altruism a la Immanuel Kant delivered politically/economically via the writings of Karl Marx -- it is IMMORAL and EVIL at the most basic philosophical level. . . . If you accept the premise that taxes should be "progressive" you have accepted the philosophy of altruism (self-sacrifice), which logically culminates in collectivism, and the attendant death and destruction that go with it." -- Space Coast Politics, July 2008. "We gather here today to... (Florida Today)
Goldman good but not that bad Jul 9, 2009
Back before World War I it was the mysterious Colonel House who whispered in President Woodrow Wilson's ear to support the establishment of both the progressive income tax and the Federal Reserve; he is also said to be the one who, in contravention of George Washington's sacred advice to the nation 120 years previously to avoid "foreign entanglements", convinced Wilson to get the United States involved in the war. Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was said that the elite Council... (Asia Times Online)
Pa’in with interest Jul 8, 2009
Jerome Christenson wrote on Jul 6, 2009 10:21 PM:" Sorry boys, the real Inconvenient Truth is that saying something over and over again doesn't make it so. The economic performance of low tax/low public investment states has alwasy significantly lagged behind those that have supported education, human services and public infrastructure. Granted, direct business investment is discouraged by high property tax rates -- but by reducing dependence on property taxes and shifting to a progressive... (Winona Daily News, MN)
Design for the new economy Jun 28, 2009
It is time to reinstitute the policies that created the American middle class after World War II. Restore progressive income tax with a top rate of 91 percent as under the Republican Eisenhower administration; favor universal participation in responsible home ownership and a family wage. Because no one has a natural birth entitlement to any greater share of the real wealth of society than anyone else, use the estate tax to help restore social balance at the end of each lifetime. (Athens Banner-Herald)
More anti-tax protests planned in Olympia Jun 23, 2009
Impose term limits and a fair tax, get rid of entitlement programs, repeal the progressive income tax, which is unconstitutional anyway. Get the federal gov't out of our daily lives and turn it back over to the local forums. (Longview Daily News, WA)
We're all in this economy together Jun 16, 2009
"-- Sorry, that's never been proven, nor is it evident, that a progressive income tax structure that has those with the most paying the most, is to the detriment of anyone. Oh the rich will tell you otherwise, well the greedy rich will, but its not the case."its also farily proven that those with capital are those who create jobs for those who don't ... "-- Sorry, that's never been proven, nor is it evident, that a progressive income tax structure that has those with the most paying the most, is... (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Donovan Gives Governor Rell An Incomplete Jun 3, 2009
Democrats want to implement a progressive income tax which would raise taxes on couples making more than $250,000 a year. Copyright. (FOX61, CT)
GARDEN STATE GAMBLE: CAN CHRISTIE FIX JERSEY? May 30, 2009
Christie will, like Christine Todd Whitman, shave taxes a bit, but he will also leave in place a steeply progressive income tax that is causing New Jersey to lose entrepreneurs. Moreover, as a moderate, Christie won't cut spending, which causes the high taxes. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Total government control is looming May 26, 2009
Is it not curious that the most vociferous proponents of governmental intrusions and funding thereof via a more intrusive and progressive income tax are the extremely wealthy. Many of the wealthy -- especially those who inherited their wealth -- realize that little to none of their already accumulated wealth will be subjected to increased income taxes. (The Augusta Chronicle)
his Nightline confession was a second edifice of lies May 9, 2009
" [E.A.]I don't think it will be that easy! ... P.S.: You see what we have to put up with out here. ... 8:23 P.M.___________________________Tuesday, June 17, 2008"DHS moved swiftly on Obama's request for protection": that the Department of Homeland Security approved Barack Obama's 2007 request for Secret Service protection in six days. This is apparently moving "swiftly" at DHS. ... 3:36 P.M.___________________________Bob Wright has . ... ( one, I think.) ... 2:30... (Slate)
* Needy can apply to delay tax payments May 2, 2009
Taipei Times - archives. Enter your search terms. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Lithuania considers IMF lifeline to slow economic collapse May 1, 2009
Lithuania's ruling coalition is considering implementing a progressive income tax, a real estate tax increase, and further government wage reductions. Some economists fear that additional austerity measures will only drag the economy down deeper, though, and say IMF assistance could avert this. (Christian Science Monitor)
Obama didn’t cause crisis Apr 20, 2009
Doug wrote on Apr 19, 2009 12:33 PM:" Tax incidence is a very interesting thing. Take the payroll tax, for example. The 50-50 statutory obligation hasn't got a thing to do with who ultimately pays the tax. Of course, that would be determined by relative wage elasticities of labor supply and labor demand. If employers are more wage sensitive than workers, workers will ultimately end up paying the larger share. The 50-50 statutory obligation hasn't got at thing to do with it. It sure appears to be... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
More of this story Apr 17, 2009
Joshua Lebovitz wrote on Apr 16, 2009 4:00 PM:" A Summary of The Communist Manifesto: 1. Abolition of private property (Paying property tax = leasing your land from the state/government) 2. Heavy progressive income tax. 3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. Central bank.(Federal Reserve?) 6. Government control of Communication portation. (FISA 7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture. (GM, Chrysler, HR 875?) 8.... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Federal stimulus not covering Illinois' education expenses Apr 6, 2009
Quinn wants a more progressive income tax too, but that would require a constitutional change at the next election. Meanwhile, he has tried to soften the income-tax hit by suggesting tripling the personal exemption income sheltered from taxes from $2,000 to $6,000 a person. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
BESTSELLER: COMMON SENSE Apr 5, 2009
He believed in casting aside the monarchy and all aristocratic trappings, to the point that he favored a progressive income tax weighted against the wealthy, so that no "upper class" emerged in a democracy. Faced with the stimulus and Gov. Paterson's "rich tax," what would Paine do. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Letter: Attempt to rewrite’ Reagan legacy sad (April 1) Apr 1, 2009
A progressive income tax is not penalizing success or envying the rich. It is necessary in order to avoid excessive concentrations of wealth and power that, if left unchecked, would result in economic collapse and destruction of the system that enables people to generate wealth in the first place. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
BOOKS: 'Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto' Mar 24, 2009
The conservative manifesto at the end of the book calls for a radical shrinking of the state, from the abolition of the progressive income tax to the sunset of all independent federal agencies at the end of every budget year. Mr. Levin wants to revoke tax-exempt status for environmental groups and neuter the national teachers unions. (Insight on the News)
Budget lessons not learned Mar 14, 2009
We again urge the state to take a more straightforward approach to its fiscal problems: Trim the fat, fix the barely progressive income tax brackets and tax wealthier New Yorkers who can afford to pay more in tough times. Sound fiscal policy is more much more than spending found money. (Albany Times Union)
Brociner: I was just wondering Mar 11, 2009
Yeah I know, Governor Patrick is in a bind and he may have little or no choice given all the givens (especially our outdated state constitution which doesn t allow for a progressive income tax). But isn t it about time that the commonwealth s lawmakers figured out a way to make our tax code more equitable. (Somerville Journal, MA)
Daniel Weintraub: GOP leaders can claim a win on budget Feb 18, 2009
But this spending limit is about as close as California can get to building a system that would smooth out the fluctuations in tax revenue that are an inevitable result of economic ups and downs and our progressive income tax rates. Villines and Cogdill also persuaded the Democrats to go along with a Republican proposal to ask voters to shift money from two special funds created by ballot measures to the general fund. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Socialism has sway in America Feb 16, 2009
England: Socialists set forth 10 measures as first steps toward communism, ranging from a progressive income tax, organizing the worker into labor unions, government control of banking as well as industry, health and welfare services for all, Social Security, abolition of inheritances as well as private property, and government controlled free education for all children ... A careful study of the above communist programs, beginning with the progressive income tax or 16th Amendment, have... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
