taxes

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston Most Americans would agree that they are duty bound as beneficiaries of our democracy to pay taxes, and the majority of us do pay—-exorbitantly. But what...

I can't believe that this is part of Bush's stump speech: http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--bushvisit0809aug09,0,6920595.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia Yeah, that's better than closing loopholes and going for strict enforcement (btw, in Bush Lingo a closed loophole is a...

I want to talk about the US tax system. I don't really want to discuss whether it is fair or not instead i want to figure out what the current system is actually doing. A great example of what i am talking about is the AMT or the alternative minimum tax. This tax was originally passed by...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=528&u=/ap/20040304/ap_on_hi_te/internet_sales_tax_7&printer=1 ...full article The state always finds a way to rape the citizen.

No, this isn't some wacko tax protestor stuff. It's the result of a study done by the US Department of the Treasury. After posing as taxpayers calling the IRS for advice, they found that the IRS gave correct and complete answers only 45% of the time. 12% of the time the answers were correct but...

My wife and I are seriously considering private school for our seven year old daughter this year. After visiting the school and talking to the parents of other students we are very impressed. However, the tuition is quite steep. We can afford it but were wondering if there are any federal or...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=511&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030815/ap_on_el_gu/davis_recall My understanding is that this is a comment by Buffett speaking for himself, and is not (yet) part of Arnold's official stance.