As you probably know, when you go to the grocery store, most of your non-luxury items are tax free. Your bread, and milk, and meat all comes...
As tax day draws inexorably closer and closer, people become more and more focused on getting the most out of their returns. For those who have...
Yesterday voters in Oregon did something crazy: They voted to raise taxes on Oregonians. More specifically, they voted to raise taxes on the...
According to a recent Spectrum Group study, there are 7.8 million millionaire households in America as of 2009, up from a paltry 6.7 million...
This is nice: The Wall Street Journal is going to stop using the term "death tax" to describe the estate tax, a tax on inheritance:
...the term...
Washington D.C. instituted a 5-cent tax on disposable bags-both paper and plastic-on New Year's Day. Now, when you go to the grocery store in the...
Washington D.C.'s first-of-its-kind tax on disposable bags made quite a splash a week or so ago. Now the District is trying to figure out what...
Jonathan Maus, of Bike Portland, looks at the idea of charging an excise tax on bikes and cycling equipment:
2010 will be a year of major...
Yes, it did.
The District's 5-cent bag tax generated about $150,000 during January to help clean up the Anacostia River, even though residents...
This idea of taxing people for the miles they drive is back in the news. From The Washington Post:
The flow of the gas tax pipeline that has...
On the heels of last week's Nano speculation, here's some more: According to Yahoo news, a version of the Tata Nano that meets U.S. emission and...
Venture capitalists love to talk about "investing in people"-but what if they meant it literally? A new funding concept launched by social...
According to a report from Forrester Research, we don't trust our banks-especially big banks. The New York Times has the low-down on America's...
If your bracket was ruined by the Kansas shocker this weekend, perhaps you'll be looking for something else to talk about at commercial breaks....
Meg Whitman's first television ad in the 2010 California gubernatorial race, "Confidence," promises to fix schools and cut taxes, just not in that...
The House of Representatives half of Congress was fighting over transportation funding this week and the big sticking point for House...
Why, with 300 days of sunshine each year, has Los Angeles not shifted to solar power in a big way? Well, it's because solar is still not quite...
From buying airtime to printing those indispensable bumper stickers, running for president is expensive. The candidates need to stick up...
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission gets to work today, interrogating CEOs, academics, and economists to find out why our financial system...
A cap-and-trade bill that forces commercial polluters to cut their carbon is still languishing in legislation purgatory, but at least we're...
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