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Are like tax shift package some will pay more and some will pay less. government will collect the same amount of taxes. no one made phone calls for revenue neutral tax reform. send the money back to the people. thats a powerful argument. a lot of people dont like that and say the government needs the money to pay for everything. but that is a conservative arguments if you want to shrink washington, shrink the federal role, give it less money. >> tax reform is hard. it will be easier than health ...

May be a three or four-year project. in kansas the governor and the legislature are committed to getting rid of the income tax and doing it overtime. they couldnt do it in year. it takes a few years. they have a big plan. they are getting rid of the tax shift with the cut. there was a discussion now in wisconsin as well. the 25 states that have the republican governor in both houses republican. almost all of those from florida to texas and on cutting taxes in some way. there 13 states and the de...

But that is what it actually is. the actual definition of base broadening tax reform that is emerging in the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiation says tax reform that limits itemized deductions among high taxpayers. that is a very boring sentence. do not be bored. this is important. here is what it actually means. as former budget director poi pointed out in a bloomberg column, 90% of those itemized destructions for the rich is three categories. deductions paid for taxes paid, mostly state and local...

Deductions paid for taxes paid, mostly state and local. home mortgage interest and charitable interest. look at each in turn. first, home mortgage deduction. most economists will tell you cutting the home mortgage deduction particularly for rich people is a good idea. no real reason the tax code should subsidize the purchase of more mcmansions. im not mar particularly worried about that. second, state and local taxes paid. thats just a tax shift. instead of raising taxes on you by simply raising...

Special interest cuts. spending pushed by the governor. $48 million, for instance, here for health savings account taxes. that was a cut, which the group says primarily benefits the wealthy. this here. $67 million for a tax shift benefiting job creators saying will not work and $25 million for this here. for an economic development fund for jobs. all said, talking about a difference, i mentioned, of a quarter billion. now, if the governor is right, over $3 billion dollars is really the meat of t...

Media with a few good exceptions is going to let the tea partyers dominate a conversation that needs to be had, needs to be had with cold, clear-eyed facts. wealth for the common good did this report and it documents the great tax shift over the last 50 years and how the wealthy have benefited so enormously at the expense of healthy, secure middle class. i think there are several things that need to be done. one is to begin to think really hard about progressive taxation. that means first of all...

Out. democratic congressman chris van ho hollen revealed what it was that caused them to walk out. what was so offensive in that room that the republicans couldnt just say no to it. so offensive that the fact that it was even spoken in the room meant that they had to leave the room immediately to get its stink off, so offensive that they did not even want to be tainted by the suggestion that this thing might be brought up in their presence. they couldnt just say no. they couldnt even negotiate o...