Posts Tagged ‘taxing’

Berkeley Officials Propose Taxing Landlords for Vacant Properties to Increase Rental Supply

Berkeley, California, hopes voters will approve levying a tax on landlords who have vacant properties in an effort to create more rentals.

Taxing times for India’s cooperative federalism

Far from bringing out the best in people and institutions, a crisis can bring out the worst too. That is precisely what seems to have happened, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, to the concept of ‘cooperative federalism’ between the central and state governments, claimed as one of his key policies by Prime Minister […]

Democrats Propose Taxing Treasures Laid Up In Heaven

WASHINGTON, D.C.—To fund the Biden Administration’s infrastructure spending bill, Democrats are proposing a new tax on the treasures Americans have laid up in heaven. “It has come to our attention that some Americans have chosen to lay up their treasure in heaven instead of here on earth,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “Americans who use heaven as a tax […]

Why “Taxing the Rich” Doesn’t Make Us Better Off

The complete confiscation of all private property is tantamount to the introduction of socialism. Therefore we do not have to deal with it in an analysis of the problems of interventionism. We are concerned here only with the partial confiscation of property. Such confiscation is today attempted primarily by taxation. The ideological motivations of such […]

Israel climbs down over taxing Jerusalem churches

Tamara Nassar Rights and Accountability 28 February 2018 Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, speaks during a news conference with other church leaders in front of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City, 25 February. Amir Cohen Reuters Israel froze a bill on Tuesday that would allow […]

Will Senate Stay Strong Against Taxing Carried Interest?

Will Senate Stay Strong Against Taxing Carried Interest? By ns_adminhttp://www.campaignforliberty.org/will-senate-stay-strong-taxing-carried-interest Andrew Quinlan, writing in Town Hall, explains why taxing carried interest will harm the economy: Historically, capital investment has been taxed at a lower rate than wage income. There is good reason for this. Savings and investment are already double and even triple taxed compared […]

California To Begin Taxing ‘Safe’ Drinking Water

California lawmakers are considering imposing a tax on clean drinking water – declaring the right to safe water a “luxury” rather than a necessity.  For the first time in U.S. history, citizens would have to pay a tax on drinking water amounting to 95 cents per month, under extreme legislation being proposed to fix public […]

Massachusetts To Vote On Taxing The Wealthy

Above Photo: From massteacher.org The Massachusetts Legislature, meeting in a Constitutional Convention, has approved sending the proposed Fair Share Amendment to the November 2018 state ballot. The legislators’ vote of 134-55 on Wednesday, June 14, was the second by a Constitutional Convention on the measure, as is required for amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution. The citizens’ initiative […]

Video captures cop raping female inmate; officers threaten victim and deny her medical treatment

     A woman’s stay in jail for an alleged misdemeanor probation violation turned into a nightmare after she was repeatedly raped, on video, and the officers who saw it, covered it up and threatened to kill her if she talked. The woman, identified in court documents as A.R., has since filed a lawsuit after the […]

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