by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 25, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is giving a firm thumbs down to the idea of giving corporations that shelter profits overseas a deep tax break if they bring those profits back into the U.S. and devote a sliver of those profits to buying bonds for highway and public...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 25, 2014 | Blog, Jobs and Growth
The long-term unemployed got some renewed attention finally on Tuesday with the announcement that a Republican and a Democratic senator are teaming up on a revival of extended benefits for people who have not been able to find work after 26 weeks. It's about time,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 20, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
We've already written about the American pharmaceutical company that plans to merge with an Irish drug company so that it will have a way to shield its profits from U.S. taxes. That company, Medtronic, would still be an American company and would still use American...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2014 | Jobs and Growth, Tax Reform
On Wednesday the Obama administration came down firmly against giving corporations a repatriation tax holiday – a tax break to corporations for bringing back into the United States profits they stashed overseas to avoid taxation. That should be a fatal blow to a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 18, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
A plan unveiled today in the Senate to raise enough money to keep the federal fund that pays for surface transportation projects from drying up within the next two months comes with a dollop of plain truth: "Congress should be embarrassed that it has played chicken...
