Recent studies and reports from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reveal that MA overpayments have significantly burdened taxpayers. Source Views: 0
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The Medicare Advantage Paradox: How private insurers cost taxpayers billions
Sanders and Schakowsky champion corporate tax reform to end ‘legalized tax dodging’
Amid growing concerns over economic inequality and corporate profiteering, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois) have introduced a groundbreaking legislative proposal aimed at overhauling the corporate tax system in the United States. The Corporate Tax Dodging Prevention Act seeks to eliminate the loopholes and tax breaks that have enabled some of the […]
Clashes Between Farmers and Police Intensify Outside EU Parliament In Brussels
Rubber bullets and water cannons were deployed against hundreds of European farmers protesting outside the EU Parliament building in Brussels on Thursday. The farmers threw eggs, set off fireworks, and started fires near the building while demanding that European leaders stop punishing them with more taxes and rising costs imposed to finance a so-called ‘green […]
Tax deal likely much more expensive than official estimate, experts warn
A tax deal that includes business deductions and a bump in the child tax credit could come to a vote in the House as soon as this week. But the deal’s $78 billion price tag, which is covered by the cancellation of a different business tax credit, likely obscures the bill’s true cost in the… […]
Wealth over fairness: Shocking report unveils tax favoritism for the rich in 41 US states
According to the report, in 41 out of 50 states, the wealthiest 1 percent are subjected to lower tax rates compared to other income groups. Source Views: 0
Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke of pen’
“The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues.” Source Views: 0
How the wealthy save billions in taxes by skirting a century-old law
Goldman Sachs and others have helped billionaires like Steve Ballmer see huge tax savings by selling stocks for a loss and then replacing them with nearly identical investments. Source Views: 0
Dems blast House GOP for bill adding $114 billion to deficit by enabling tax cheats
“Once again,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, Republicans are “putting politics over poor and working people.” Source Views: 0
This graph shows where surging corporate profits increasingly go: Tax havens
The global corporate minimum tax would ensure all companies worldwide pay a minimum tax of 15% and would require higher taxes of large companies in countries where they have customers. Source Views: 0
Here’s how they’ll bankrupt You
8TH SEPTEMBER 2022 Their plan is to make every one of us bankrupt and they’re well on the way to succeeding. Only the billionaire conspirators are likely to avoid this. The conspirators must be delighted at the way things are going. To start with, of course, the rising cost of food and energy will eat […]
Hypocrisy abounds as PPP loans to 1% forgiven, while Biden seeks to privatize taxpayer subsidized COVID meds…
The carnage wreaked by COVID left over a million deaths in the U.S. during the first two years. Thanks to miracle medicines, such as COVID vaccines, diagnostic tests, and antivirals, the death toll has been greatly reduced. Access to treatments and vaccines has been afforded to all, as the federal government foots the bill to […]
IRS Record Tax Collection: $565,135,000,000 in First Two Months of FY 2022
The U.S. Treasury is reporting a record amount of taxes collected in the first two months of fiscal 2022 (October, November) — $565,135,000,000. The federal government also collected a record $282,094,000,000 in individual income taxes in the first two months of this fiscal year. The CNS News website reported on the record intake: The $921,526,000,000 […]
What’s that ‘surtax’ doing in Build Back Better?
Image Credit: Filip Warulik/iStock, BeeBright/iStock ales tax. Property tax. Income tax. We all know what these three familiar taxes tax. But what does a “surtax” do? What difference, in particular, is the Build Back Better “surtax” that just passed the House of Representatives going to make? Maybe a big difference. In fact, if the Senate […]
San Diego County to Implement 4-Cent-Per-Mile Tax
The San Diego Association of Governments’ (SANDAG) board met Oct. 29 virtually to discuss a four-cent-per-mile tax proposal that could impact every driver in San Diego County by 2030. The proposed mileage tax is intended to supplement and eventually replace gas taxes, which have dropped considerably as gas mileage has increased and hybrid and electric […]
The ‘Smoke And Mirrors’ Billionaires Tax
Above photo: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during an event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 12, 2021. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty Images. And 15% Minimum Corporate Tax Proposals. After a well-choreographed internal party policy debate dance this past summer, Biden and party leaders, Pelosi […]
Cash for Kids, No Work Required
Commentary Democrats used to be the party of working people. Now, they sneer at people who work hard. Democrats pushing to pass the Build Back Better bill want a single parent with two kids to be able to take home well over $31,000 in cash and noncash federal benefits a year, tax-free, without having to […]
Why Not A Financial Transactions Tax?
Above Photo: World Financial Review. As Senator Sinema gets Biden to drop his proposed tax increases on corporations and wealthy investors earning more than $400K income a year, no consideration is being given at all within Democrat party circles about introducing a financial transactions tax to pay for the Infrastructure bill ($.55T) or the Build […]
US billionaires are now $2.1 trillion richer than before the pandemic
America’s billionaires have grown $2.1 trillion richer during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by 70 percent — from just short of $3 trillion at the start of the COVID crisis on March 18, 2020, to over $5 trillion on October 15 of this year, according to Forbes data analyzed by Americans for Tax Fairness […]