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Want Transportation Funding? Close This Egregious Tax Loophole
A leading House Democrat says that making it harder for corporations to use overseas affiliates to avoid paying U.S. corporate taxes would help shore up a fund for transportation projects that's about to run dry.
Progressive Breakfast
Unemployment Insurance Extension Returns To Senate Senate negotiators revamp bill, restart unemployment insurance debate. National Journal: "Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada—a Republican who has been working closely with Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island for more...
Dirty Secret In The Education Wars: Money Matters
The dirty, little secret is that spending more money on schools is what most people really want – and for good reason. Yet what we’ve been seeing is a 'reform' agenda that emphasizes anything but.
Another Secret Pro-Corporate Trade Negotiation Is Leaked
Another leak shows that the giant corporations consider themselves powerful enough to just ignore governments, and are negotiating among themselves the rules for world corporate domination in the 21st century.
Will Obama Opposition To Repatriation Tax Holiday Kill This Bad Idea?
Just as the White House was registering its opposition to a corporate tax holiday for companies that are sheltering profits overseas, a House Democrat was selling the proposal in a campaign ad.
Why Democrats Are More United Than Republicans (And Why That's Good)
What keeps Democrats unified is not rigid political homogeneousness or leader worship, but a tolerance for differences of opinion and an acceptance of political pragmatism
How to Build a Powerful People’s Movement
How do we build a people’s movement? We start with vision. Prophetic moral vision seeks to penetrate despair, so that we can believe in and embrace new futures. It does not ask if the vision can be implemented
The Case For Making Federal Contract Jobs Good Jobs
President Obama could sign an executive order today that would help halt wage theft and place over 20 million Americans on a pathway to the middle class, according to a report by the think tank Demos.
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President Rejects Repatriation WH states opposition to tax "holiday" for multinational corporations. Reuters: "President Barack Obama does not support the idea of a corporate tax repatriation 'holiday' that some Republicans in Congress have said could help boost the...
The Double Irish/Dutch Sandwich Corporate Tax-Dodge Crisis
Medtronic is as American a company as they come. But if Medtronic’s management has its way, the company will soon become Irish. Why? Because everybody evades their taxes nowadays.
