The Wall Street JournalDecember 5, 2012 By Carl Levin America stands at the edge of a fiscal cliff with drastic budget cuts and painful tax increases on the middle class unless we can agree on a comprehensive, balanced deficit-reduction plan. This challenge lends new urgency to cutting loopholes and gimmicks…
Happy Thanksgiving
Sorry I’ve not been blogging much recently. Many other pressing things have come up. So to give you a worthy blog to read over the holidays, below is one by my friend Nicole Tichon, executive director of the Tax Justice Network USA. This blog ran recently in The Huffington Post. …
End tax cuts for the wealthiest
This afternoon President Obama will hold a press conference to talk about growing the U.S. economy and reducing the deficit. He will certainly address the fictitious “fiscal cliff” you’ve heard so much concern about. You can watch it live here. The talking point on this scary fall is that the…