AP IMPACT: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
Kim Gamel Asscociated Press KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq – A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s…
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The Rich Vs. The Middle
Jonathan Chait The New Republic Chuck Marr goes through the CBO’s inequality data and pulls out this striking finding: This wouldn’t be such a big…
401(k) Hardship Withdrawals Spike
Aaron Smith CNN Hardship withdrawals from 401(k) retirement saving plans rose to the highest level in 10 years during the second quarter, Fidelity Investments said…
Bloggers Must Pay $300 Privilege Tax in Philly
Got a blog that makes no money? The city wants $300, thank you very much. Valerie Rubinski Philadelphia City Paper For the past three years,…
Cuts in Social Security Weighed by Panel
Laura Meckler Wall Street Journal A White House-created commission is considering proposals to raise the retirement age and take other steps to shore up the…
The Ecstasy of Empire
Paul Craig Roberts InfoWars The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of…
CA town overpaid officials with $3 million in illegal property taxes
Robert Jablon Raw Story The tiny blue-collar city that granted huge salaries to its top officials may have to repay nearly $3 million in illegal…
Globalists Race To Enforce Criminal Carbon Tax
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet $100 Billion A Year Levy Is About Bankrolling Global Government And Lining The Pockets Of Con Artist Oil Men Soros,…
IRS Continues to Use ‘Tax Protester’ Label Despite Congressional Prohibition
TaxProf Blog Section 3707 of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 prohibits the IRS from designating taxpayers as “illegal tax protesters (or any similar designation).”…
Gold Coin Sellers Angered by New Tax Law
Rich Blake ABC News Those already outraged by the president’s health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on…
Retirement Nightmare: Half of Americans Have Less Than $2000 Saved
Scott Thill Alternet With declining earnings and a culture of borrow-and-consume, America’s workers face a future of uncertainty and little money to pay for their…
10 Ways You’re Being Fleeced by Banks
Activist Post Taxpayers are rightfully angrier than ever before about the state of the U.S. economy and the government’s handling of the financial crisis; perhaps…
Man tries to pay tax with 200,000 pennies
QMI Agency RIPON, Que. – A Quebec man, fed up with his skyrocketing property taxes, carted more than 200,000 pennies down to City Hall to…