If you’ve been dreaming of a new granite or other natural stone counter top, you better book that work now. Otherwise the price of the stone might be higher thanks to the farm bill pending in the US House of…
The Senate is scheduled to vote, possibly today, on the “Marketplace Fairness Act” which would force online retailers to collect sales taxes on products sold to consumers in every state, county and town in the country. It would be a…
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo touts himself as a tax cutter, often citing the property tax cap he signed into law shortly after he took office. The thing is, the law has so many loopholes the tax cap can be…
Do you get a vaccine every year to protect yourself and your family from the flu? If so, you could pay a tax on it this fall or early next winter. In February, identical bills were introduced in the House…
The Senate is expected to vote on a bill that will require internet retailers like Amazon to collect sales taxes for all of the states. The name of the bill is the “Marketplace Fairness Act” and it is expected to…
President Obama promised transparency on how our tax dollars are being spent. The White House boasted on its website “In his 2011 State of the Union Address, President Obama promised that, for the first time ever, American taxpayers would be…
Not long ago President Obama announced a bold new plan to map the human brain. The Biden jokes were flying on Twitter, but the real news is that the device tax in Obamacare could hurt his new initiative before it…
The $350 tax rebate checks included in the latest NY budget will be sent out two weeks before election day next year. What an odd coincidence. Just three weeks before Election Day next year, New York plans to mail a…
A Berkeley, California councilman wants to tax emails to fund the Post Office. Seton Motley compares this idea to taxing Ford to prop up the horse and buggy industry. Gordon Wozniak suggested that using email, which is partially responsible for…
Here’s another Obama accomplishment – Americans have experienced the biggest drop in disposable income in two decades. Americans saw their income drop so dramatically in January that it marked the deepest one-month decline in 20 years. Personal income decreased by…
One of the few things New York Governor Andrew Cuomo did right was to sign a law capping property taxes in the state. It didn’t go far enough in providing tax relief, since property taxes can still be raised above…
President Obama and the administration have been dragging their heels on approval for the Keystone XL pipeline for years now. He’s got the environmental wackos on one side who are against it, and the unions on the other side who…
Investors Business Daily caught the Democrats’ favorite economist telling the truth about liberalism’s end game. Paul Krugman said in a speech that the national debt crisis is going to lead to higher taxes on the middle class and death panels.…
Obamacare’s medical device tax is back on the chopping block, and the push to repeal it has bipartisan support. Gee, did the Democrats who passed this thing really believe Nancy Pelosi when she said they had to pass it to…
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