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The Debt Economy - How The Tax Code Encourages Debt : The New Yorker

newyorker.com | James Surowiecki | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Taxes, Debt, James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, Consumer Lending, The Debt Economy, Leverage, Borrowing, Tax Code, Business News

. Debt didn't get dangerously out of scale because the system was broken. It got out of scale, in part, because the system worked. The government d...

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Homebuyer Tax Credits Went To Four-Year-Olds

AOL | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Homebuyers, Charles Boustany, Homebuyer Tax Credit, Taxes, John Lewis, Russell George, House Ways and Means Committee, 4 Year Old, Four Year Old, Tax Code, Tax Credits, Business News

There have been more than 500 instances of adults using the names of minors -- including a four-year-old -- to qualify for the first-time homebuyer ta...

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Friday Talking Points: Is Opt-Out The Answer?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

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Rich Americans Scrambling Over Tax Dodge Crackdown

Posted 09.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Code, Irs, Rich Americans, Personal Finance, Wealthy Americans, Tax Cheats, Business News

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from...

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Technology, the Road to Recovery, and Personal Prosperity

Dean Garfield | Posted 09.13.2009 | Technology

Read More: Tax Code, Education, Woodstock, Apollo 11, President Kennedy, Immigration, Innovtion, Technology, Health Care System, Technology News
Dean Garfield

It is time to marshal industry and scientific innovation to advance our key terrestrial priorities. The deep cultural divisions of the 1960s are largely behind us, but challenges remain.

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The Me-First, Screw-Everyone-Else Crowd

David Sirota | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Health Care, Tea Party, Tax Cuts, Warren Buffett, Corporate Taxes, Tax Code, Politics News
David Sirota

The furor of the teabaggers is finally laying bare the greed and selfishness at the heart of the conservative movement. Here, I debunk the major myths coming from the Right on taxes.

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Ponzi-Scheme Losses: Tax Deductions

smartmoney.com | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Deductions, Irs, Ponzi Scheme Losses, Tax Code, Ponzi Schme, Business News

If you've been cheated in a Ponzi investment scheme a la Bernie Madoff, the IRS wants to cut you some slack. The feds will let you treat your loss as ...

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Tax Code Can Green Our Country

Rep. Mike Thompson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Taxes, Tax Code, Solar, California, Green, Conservation, Green Taxes, Earth Day 2009, Earth Day, Environment, Green News
Rep. Mike Thompson

Since Congress passed my provisions to enhance these tax benefits on a temporary basis in 2006, we've seen a fifty percent increase in conservation easements.

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Tax Day: Obama Speaking On Changes To Code (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seized the opportunity on tax-filing day to assert that his administration is easing the tax burden of worki...

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Why Our Tax Code is So Complicated

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business

Read More: April 15 Tax Day, Taxes, Tax Code Simplification, Tax Code Changes, Tax Cuts, Tax Day, Tax Anti-Avoidance Rules, Taxpayers, Tax Code, Business News
Hale

There are plenty of reasons why the tax code is so complicated -- the length of time tax law have existed, special interest giveaways, and the implementation of anti-avoidance laws.

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How the U.S. Tax Code Really Redistributes income

Beth Shulman | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Low-Wage, Tax Code, Work, Inequality, Economy, Business News
Beth Shulman

The administration is attempting to more equitably distribute the benefits of tax entitlements by ensuring those at the bottom get the benefits that higher income taxpayers already receive.

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'Clawback' Mountain: Use the Tax Code

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig Bonuses, Congress, President Obama, Tax Code, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Public support for fixing the financial system is vanishing. The egregious bonuses are a constant reminder of how the wealthy are able to jigger the system to benefit themselves.

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How To Avoid A Tom Daschle Tax Trip Up

New York Times | Ron Lieber | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Daschle, Irs, Internal Revenue Code, Tax Code, Internal Revenue Service, Tom Daschle, Tom Daschle Taxes, Tom Daschle Tax Problem, Business News

In just a couple of hours on Tuesday, two high-level nominees for jobs in the Obama administration took themselves out of the running because of tax p...

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A Response To Rep. Elijah Cummings

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The loopholes which allow such corporate excess were not exactly handed down to Moses on tablets -- each and every loophole was approved by Congress.

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Untangling The Tax Code: What You Need To Know

LA Times | Kathy M. Kristof | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Taxes, Filing Taxes, Tax Code, Congress, Irs, Business News

Now that tinkering with the tax code has become a favorite congressional pastime, the annual filing season is more of an ordeal than ever, with laws k...

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