Nearly 300 protesters pounded the sidewalk of El Camino Real in San Mateo, CA on Wednesday to demonstrate their disapproval of the federal stimulus package and the implications of bailouts for taxpayers.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
Low and middle-income taxpayers who ironically stand to gain the most from Obama's tax policies have once again been manipulated by the GOP.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics
HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. Pressed repeatedly to respond to t...
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
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.
Bob Greenstein | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
How did Senate proponents sell their colleagues on the idea of spending so much money to benefit the estates of the wealthiest one quarter of one percent of Americans who die?
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
While watching President Obama's press conference Tuesday evening, I was struck by a few things that are often forgotten in the criticism of his proposed budget.
Wall Street Journal | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
The White House said it would launch a search for new tax revenues, as Congressional leaders moved to scale back proposed spending increases and tax c...
Bill Cusack | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Americans will never forget Bush's Presidency. Dubya and all he stands for will have to be completely purged from the party if they ever want to win another national election.
Think Progress | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
When conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh roots for President Barack Obama's failure, he may be motivated by something other than ideology. A new an...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim and Julie Satow | Posted 04.11.2009 | Politics
It took an unlikely alignment of events to create a situation where venture capitalists and private equity managers could pay a lower tax rate than th...
Bennet Kelley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics
If the Republicans are going to ever regain political supremacy, they are going to have to take off their sunglasses and recognize the wreckage they have caused.
Judith Ellis | Posted 03.31.2009 | Business
The documentary, I.O.U.S.A, was recently brought to my attention and it will probably be the most sobering clip that you will ever see about the state of the economy.
Bob Cesca | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
What the far-right appears to suggest is that ideas that are supported by 82% of Americans are criminal acts of tyranny, and an eventual tax increase of pennies on the dollar for the wealthiest 2% is worthy of opposition by revolutionary means.
NY Times | JACKIE CALMES and ROBERT PEAR | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
President Obama will propose further tax increases on the affluent to help pay for his promise to make health care more accessible and affordable, cal...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The notoriously slow Congress passed the $787 billion economic stimulus package in a matter of weeks. President Barack Obama signed...
Christine Callaghan Quinn and David Yassky | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
All told, we're talking about over 700,000 people in our city -- most of the children -- that stand to benefit if we eliminate this unfair burden.
Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.
Randall Amster | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the centerpiece of the current bill (at least for people's pockets in the short-term) is an actual weekly paycheck bump to the tune of about eight bucks.
Will Durst | Posted 03.16.2009 | Comedy
Citizens of America, stay in your homes. The Minority leadership unleashed their legions of virtual undead to battle the White House's economic stimulus package with a soul sapping single-mindedness.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Mr. President, help us create "a more perfect Union" from the "bottom-up." You can be the Lincoln of our times and free us from the greed and "top-down" bondage that has brought us here.
Craig Crawford | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics
Wandering around Georgetown yesterday for this video, I found that in this ritzy neighborhood, the sandwich business stands to gain from the president's payroll tax cut ($13 a week for the average worker).
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
The stars have now aligned in the midst of this economic crisis, and it is precisely the time to address the urgent issues of poverty in America.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business
As muddled as this economic stage may be -- and all major measures taken in crisis usually are -- it is born of the drive to reconstruct and not profiteer, and that alone is progress to applaud.
Harry Moroz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
One of the three tenets of stimulus is timeliness. But should we really sacrifice longer term effectiveness for timely "affect"?
Leighann Lord | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy
When The Stimulus Plan left the House of Representatives, it was clocking in at 1,788 pages. For a bit of perspective, War and Peace - the longest novel in literary history - is 1,463 pages and is only slightly less boring.
Natasha Chen | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics