Some stories from our archives
100 Republicans who got $1 million
from ATT urge Obama to let firm buy T-Mobile
Ohio GOP governor wants to privatize just about
everything
Michigan GOP governor wants to
slash business taxes by $2 billion while cutting working class
services
Florida Governor Rick Scott wants to balance the budget by
slashing at least $2 billion from education, and has proposed
$1.7 billion in tax cuts for property owners and corporation.
. . .
House Republican wants to abolish
the tax code
"In Washington, the view is that the banks are
to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators
are there to serve the banks," -Spencer Bachus (R), incoming
Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
Senate Republicans
unanimously opposed
ending tax cuts for those earning over $1 million annually.
It's been kept secret until
now but at a private campaign fundraiser, Sharon Angle said of
Augusto Pinochet's privatizing of Social Security: "Sometimes
dictators have good ideas."
Meg Whitman's plan to eliminate the capital gains
tax would widen the state's budget deficit by about $5 billion,
and for what? One winner would be Whitman, who would save $8-41
million during a four year term as governor.
GOP Kentucky senatorial
candidate Ron
Paul would like to replace the national income tax with a sales
tax. To accomplish this would take about a 23% sales tax. That
would be on top of state sales tax and would be a massive giveaway
to the rich. For example, in California, Meg Whitman would gain
hundreds of thousands of dollars while those in the bottom 20%
would have to pay several thousand dollars more a year.
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