August 2, 2013 The Hill’s Congress Blog By Frank Knapp Jr. President Obama is right to address the urgent need to modernize our once grand infrastructure. Unfortunately, the president’s corporate tax reforms would leave us in a deeper hole down the road. The president’s plan to cut corporate tax rates…
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. …
Who Speaks for Small Business? Not the NFIB
Published on May 23, 2012 Huffington Post By Ellen Bravo The National Federation of Independent Businesses loves to wrap itself in the flag of neighborhood Mom and Pop shops when it lobbies on Capitol Hill, but many small business owners maintain the NFIB’s agenda doesn’t address their priorities, and say…
Who truly speaks for small businesses?
Published on May 22, 2012 By John Stoehr | The Great Debate Everyone knows that small businesses hate President Obama’s historic healthcare reform law, right? At least that’s what the nation’s leading small-business advocacy group would have you believe. Joining 26 states, the National Federation of Independent Business challenged the…
Independent Film Documents Lost U.S. Taxes
First screening in South Carolina April 25 “We’re Not Broke” is a timely independent film documenting big corporations hiding over a trillion dollars from Uncle Sam. The film was selected to be screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as the film festivals in Boston and Dallas. **Public…
How Everyone Else Pays for Big Business’s Tax Breaks
US News and World ReportApril 5, 2012 Families and small businesses pick up the tab for egregious tax loopholes exploited by corporations By Joseph Rotella, Dennis Van Roekel Some politicians might believe that “corporations are people,” as former Gov. Mitt Romney declared last year. At tax time, however, corporations enjoy…