Payroll Taxes

Threatening a Class War If Billionaires Have to Pay the Same Tax Rates As Janitors

David Sirota | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


David Sirota

Despite the patina of "objectivity" imparted by a Washington Post byline, we see that many people delivering the news are themselves purveyors of the most extreme conservative ideology.

Information Asymmetries Part II

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business


Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

It takes time for labor unemployment to go down, but there is now a lot of slack capacity and eventually that slack capacity will be priced appropriately and then, finally, consumers will spend.

Solving Social Security

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living


Dr. Susan Corso

Watching Bill Maher last week, I was arrested by his suggestion that those who qualify for Social Security and are well-off should not collect their g...

I Bet That Hobo Can Recommend a Good Restaurant

Ross Hyzer | Posted 02.28.2009 | Comedy


Ross Hyzer

What's that you say? There's been a dispute over money in the package for resodding the National Mall? Well, consider me rapt.

At Last, It Begins: Real, Substantive Debate on 2009 Climate Legislation

Dan Rosenblum | Posted 12.26.2008 | Green


Dan Rosenblum

If introducing a new tax on carbon seems like a quixotic political battle in a time of historic economic and fiscal crisis, then you're out of touch. The crisis has in fact given it a big boost.

Businesses Stiff IRS $58 Billion In Unpaid Payroll Taxes

Washington Post | Holly Watt | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business


Businesses have shorted the Internal Revenue Service about $58 billion in federal payroll taxes they withheld from employees' wages over the past 10 y...

Obama Wants Payroll Tax On Incomes Above $250,000

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 06.21.2008 | Business


COLUMBUS, Ohio — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Friday called for higher payroll taxes on wage-earners making more than $250,000 annually, a st...