#Taxes

Scott Bauer

sbauerAP

BREAKINGWisconsin Republicans have delivered a COVID-19 aid package proposal to @GovEvers that would give the Legislature's budget committee the power to make any cuts in spending it wanted, a provision

Seth Hanlon

SethHanlon

The IRS has posted guidance, if you can call it that, on the payroll tax deferral scheme.It purports to say that employers can stop withholding Social Sec. tax from Sept-Dec...but

Sam Missingham

samatlounge

That @maitlis intro last night was fucking everything, wasn't it? And, let's widen out from the pandemic, we have NEVER been in this together. Nearly as big a con as

ashley buzzy mchugh

arbuzzy

y’all i’m not trying to play saintly here, i’m just being honest about my experience from being a lower middle class second gen immigrant kid to very rapidly being handed

Tom Williams

shirleymush

Just a few things to bear in mind regarding the forthcoming fight between the government and the teaching unions. I’m going to try to keep to objective facts. THREAD: We

Diane Lim

economistmom

Just for fun I used an online tax calculator to see what the federal income tax bill would be for a single person with (just) $20,000 in before-tax income. This

Villi

villi

A few thoughts on tax policy. Thread:So you are worth >$100M or perhaps even a few billion. There are only two ways to become this rich.1. You start a business

Ace the Architect is Voting for Sherae For State

TheUrbanAce

Alright to this evening's housing thread is brought to you by this question: 'I have friends who think a vacancy tax would do more to solve Seattle's housing problem than

Steve Inskeep

NPRinskeep

“In 2018, for example, Mr. Trump announced in his disclosure that he had made at least $434.9 million. The tax records deliver a very different portrait of his bottom line:

Alicia Elliott

WordsandGuitar

It's important for Canadians to remember: Indigenous people were willing to share our lands with you. We only asked that you let us keep our ways, our languages, our children--and

Ryan "Two Pfizer Shots and Covid Immune" Ellis

RyanLEllis

What should people think about the @nytimes Trump tax story? A thread. 1/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage Let’s start with the obvious: whi

Rich Harris

Rich_Harris

Let's say your Pulitzer Prize-winning colleagues have unearthed new tax information about the president, and need you to make a bar chart to illustrate their findings. Bar charts are easy,

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

So....plutes gonna plute. Donald Trump is the head of the snake of this corrupt system.First things first, he needs to be ejected from office and criminally prosecuted.But the @nytimes revelations

Walter Shaub

waltshaub

Why can't we condition bailout money for big companies on them showing they meet these criteria: they haven't done stock buybacks in recent years, no new stock buybacks, no layoffs

Bethany Lilly

bethanylilly

I had an earlier-than-I-like meeting today, so here's my hot take: we're in this mess about poor people not getting the Economic Impact Payments they're entitled to because the GOV

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

As states exchange insults over who subsidizes who (yes, blue states subsidize red states), some people I've been talking to are suggesting that red states may face a worse fiscal