taxes

Justin Trudeau is stepping down as his party's leader. The leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, said,"'Canadians can take back control of their lives and their country,' he said in a video post on X. 'Take back control of our border. Take back control of immigration. Take back...

H.R.1979 - Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act of 2021 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/794 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1979/text Imgur had a meme about this. Claims the bill is introduced occasionally then dies. I suppose if they can afford to pay...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5103/text?r=29 A bill to raise taxes on certain firearms. Guns are already some of the most heavily taxes products in the country; 11% excise tax at the moment. I guess I can save money by purchasing the stripped receiver and then buying...

We are the greatest! Revenue Statistics 2017, Denmark Revenue Statistics - OECD countries: Comparative tables Details of Tax Revenue, Denmark And yet, the Norwegians are happier. I don’t see why … 2017 World Happiness Report

Given all the discussion, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to eliminate corporate taxes completely. Here is an older article in the Atlantic about this. A bunch of carve outs and deductions for specific business would have to be eliminated. By doing this, I think we would make it much...

Hi all, I've been following the threads in this section lately and have to admit I've been interested and researching on my own to try and keep up. I'm hoping to hear opinions on the APT tax (Automated Payment Transaction Tax) and how it might affect our economy vs the tax reform being...

Alabama senator creates 'GoFundMe' campaign to solve budget impasse I guess when you live in the fantasy world that we don't really need to fund government services with taxes ... :rolleyes:

Governments of first-world nations spend huge amounts of money on public infrastructure and services. These same nations also tend to impose income tax. Assuming we want to retain these services, that we want to continue developing and maintaining the infrastructure, and assuming that we also...

Good Jobs First, a nonprofit taxpayer watchdog organization, released a report on the practice of allowing corporations to pocket state income taxes withheld from their employees. 16 US states allow this and none of them requires disclosure to their employees. Article Full text of report (PDF...

Why Home Prices Are Double Dipping So the tax credit increased the deficit and merely postponed the bottom. There's various other subsidies to home buyers too, such as the mortgage interest rate deduction, and Fannie, Freddie and Ginnie. All of these of course increase the deficit, while...

So, there's something I don't get about the Democratic position with respect to the budget and the prospect of a government shutdown. The Republicans want to cut spending, although not enough to really address the deficit, but some. The Democrats want to cut spending, but not as much as the...

We have a series of charts and graphs from Mother Jones showing the disproportionate amount of wealth in the hands of the top 1%: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph And we have a series of tables from the Tax Foundation showing that the tax burden...

I got an email, and checked the eBay website and found it to be true. From the email: $20,000 seems quite a bit, I know, but how concerned should I be about this?

This thread was inspired by the following post in the Detax Canada thread: The first thing that I thought of when I read that is this great scene from Monty Python's The Life of Brian: The intent of this thread is to find an overview of things our taxes pay for, either completely or...

Zeitgeist follower tries to get the better of the IRS I love their tactic, simply tell the IRS you didn't earn any money! Therefore you don't have to pay tax! Its so simple! :D...

Is there anybody here who thinks this is a good thing???????

George W. Bush set in motion what should be some interesting political theater. Ten years ago, he passed a tax bill with a sunset provision. If Congress does nothing, our taxes go up, fairly substantially, especially at the upper incomes and for families with children. Now we have a very odd...

Education is in a crisis in this country. Tens of thousands of teachers will be laid off this year and student to teacher ratios will more than double. On top of this entire departments, especially art, music and drama ones, will be eliminated. All for lack of money. But we have the Tea Party...

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/04/07/4127805-nearly-half-of-us-households-escape-fed-income-tax Something about this doesn't seem accurate, or is it just me?

I heard a rumor that Obama is going to tax vital medical equipment to obtain the funds he needs to balance and maintain his new medical policy. (This info bugger is sketchy as hell so it's being put in the conspiracy theory section. I'm looking for info on debunk/confirm this info.)

Even if I didn't lose any money in the current crisis, the interview between Bill Moyers and William K. Black made me quite angry about the scope of WTF was - and according to him - STILL IS going on behind the scenes: Excerpts: Full Interview...

WTF?!! http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-lake-bluff-church-17-jul17,0,5397208.story

My hopes that she'll actually answer these questions are not very high, but I figured I'd oblige her demand that a new thread be started about this, just to confirm my suspicion that she has no answers for them. I would like to know three things regarding your obvious distaste for the profits...

Link It appears all this bill would change is adding the line to the 1040 form, since you can already make voluntary donations to decrease the national debt. Last year, the treasury got all of $2.6 million in voluntary contributions. Apparently even most liberals would rather keep their money.

This is an interesting development... Tampa Televangelists draw Senate scrutiny <snip> Two U.S. Senators sent out a new round of letters today to some of the nation’s most high-profile televangelists, urging them to turn over key financial records. The Senators told the ministries that they...

Link So as you might have heard, they're planning to give us a tax rebate soon in the hopes of pumping some money into the economy. I was talking about it with my mom and she'd mentioned that she'd heard commentators lamenting that the money would be used to pay bills instead of people going...

Note: I was unsure if putting this post in Politics was the best choice, It has to do with governmental policies so I suppose this is appropriate The Church enjoys a free ride, no matter how big the church is or how fat their coffers get they do not have to so much as report the amount of money...

From Hovind's blog: I didn't think a judge at sentencing can acquit someone who has been convicted by a jury. Is it possible? If so, on what grounds? I strongly doubt Hovind will get anything less than a few years. Though it is possible he gets more than a just few years as 58 felonies is...

Well up to a point anyway.... I'm hearing up to $250K of profit from sale of a house is not taxable for singles ($500K for couples). Can any finance whiz kids confirm/deny?

Dear US government, STOP WASTING MY $%$#@ MONEY!! STOP ACTING LIKE CHILDREN AND RUN THE #$#@% GOVERNMENT FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!! Can you imagine what your job would be like if you could fillibuster? I picture it like covering your ears and going, "La, la, la. I can't hear you. La, la, la...