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| Mar 4, 2026 | There’s a push to cut capital gains taxes on home sales — how it could impact the housing market | Amid the U.S. housing shortage, some lawmakers want to reduce or eliminate capital gains taxes on home sales to boost supply.
Under current law, primary home sellers can exclude up to $250,000 in profits from capital gains for single filers... |
| May 9, 2025 | Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill | The last ditch-push by the president comes as Republicans are laboring to push his “big, beautiful bill” toward public hearings next week, on track for a House vote by Memorial Day. Divisions run strong in the party, and the president’s on-... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | The Erosion of Free Speech: A Dangerous Dance with Section 230 | In the digital age, the battle for free speech is fought not just in the streets but in the halls of power. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act stands as a bulwark against censorship, a shield for online platforms that allows them... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | Even Traditional GOP Allies Are Urging The FCC To End Its Baseless Attack On CBS, 60 Minutes | Last October, Trump sued CBS claiming (falsely) that a 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris had been “deceitfully edited” to her benefit (they simply shortened some of her answers for brevity, as news outlets often do). As Mike explored, t... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Tug of War Over Tax Filing: Direct File Faces Uncertain Future Amidst Tech Turmoil | The landscape of tax filing in the United States is shifting. A new program, Direct File, promises to simplify the process. But as the IRS navigates a sea of opinions and external pressures, its future hangs in the balance.
In 2024, the IRS... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | National Politics | A government program made tax filing free and more efficient. Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway | Direct File was rolled out as a pilot program in 2024 after the IRS was tasked with looking into how to create a “direct file” system as part of the money it received from the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law by President Joe Biden i... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | National Politics | Republican election sweep emboldens Trump’s tax cut dreams | Republicans’ election success not only bolsters the 2017 tax cuts but opens the way for consideration of ideas such as further cutting the corporate tax rate and exempting tips from federal income taxes, said Grover Norquist, an influential... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | 10 Significant Ways Your Taxes Will Impacted By A Kamala Harris Administration Most businesses will certainly see their tax bill increase. | Kamala Harris' campaign strategy has been to paint broad strokes about how she would approach the job of President while being mostly vague on policy specifics. To that end — and as of this writing — she hasn't said much about taxes other t... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Biden proposes highest Capital Gains Tax in over 100 years for stocks and crypto | President Biden has formally suggested the highest top capital gains tax rate in over a century.
According to the proposal, the top marginal rate on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends would rise to 44.6%. This could significant... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | How Dems’ spending bill hammers Americans with billions in new taxes | More On: inflation
Pawn Stars host: People needing cash turning to pawn shops during inflation Trump shares blame for Democrats’ disastrous ‘successes’ Biden says ‘inflation’ bill funds healthcare, ‘God knows what else’ in bizarre speech Fe... |
| Jun 30, 2022 | The Country May Be Close To A Recession, But These States Are Still Growing | WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 22: U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a virtual meeting about ... [+] mineral supply chains and clean energy manufacturing in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex February 22, 2022 in Washin... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Biden’s $5.79 Trillion 2023 Budget Proposal Would Also Expand Regulation | A billion here and a billion there, as the old saying went, would eventually add up to real money. Not so much anymore. We seem to have become accustomed to multi-trillion-dollar heights in spending that double every few years. |
| Feb 28, 2022 | How Tax Protesters Set Off the Bitcoin Revolution | Lord, the revenue man is ridin', boy, you'd better look out
Lord, the revenue man is ridin', boy, you'd better look out
If he hollers and you don't stop, you will likely be knocked out …
Oh, I wake up every mornin' now with the jinx all aro... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Build Back Better would make US income tax rate highest in developed world | More On: taxes
Psaki insists spending bill won’t cause middle-class taxes to rise Biden’s Build Back Better will raise taxes on 30% of middle-class families Democrats’ tax hikes will blow away any gains from a restored SALT deduction, furth... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Build Back Better would make US income tax rate highest in developed world | More On: taxes
Eric Adams again gets testy over making tax returns public You thought Tax Day was bad? Biden has worse in store Eric Adams reverses course, pledges to release tax ‘information’ — eventually A tradition of sexualizing kids an... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | State Lawmakers Advance Reforms Expanding Access To Health Care | State lawmakers have introduced legislation in 2021 to expand access to telemedicine. getty |
| Jun 9, 2021 | A Stronger Economic Recovery Is Within Reach, But Public Policy Is Holding It Back | Happy female shoppers tasting chocolate truffles in a candy shop. Ygetty |
| Apr 16, 2021 | Republican Senators Push Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid Cuts After Supporting Ineffective Tax Cuts | Republicans Target Social Security, Medicare and Medicaidgetty |
| Mar 6, 2021 | Senate’s $1.9 Trillion Spending Bill Criticized For Blocking State Tax Relief, Rewarding Bad Gubernatorial Behavior | U.S. Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) speaks as Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck ... [+] Schumer (D-NY) listens during a weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol March 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats held a news c... |
| Feb 28, 2021 | Three Rust Belt Governors Seek More Taxes, Less School Choice | Downtown Chicagogetty |
| Jan 31, 2021 | How Joe Biden’s Tax Plan Will Drive Up Utility Bills Nationwide | An unadvertised aspect of President Joe Biden's tax plan is how the corporate tax increase, if ... [+] enacted, will drive up utility bills from coast to coast. getty |
| Jan 29, 2021 | One Governor Hopes To Pile Onto Joe Biden’s Capital Gains Tax Hike With A State-Level Cash Grab | If President Joe Biden gets his way, the federal capital gains tax rate will double. Meanwhile some ... [+] governors now want to pile on with state-level tax increases on capital gains and other income. getty |
| Dec 3, 2020 | With Simington Vote, The GOP And Big Telecom Maneuver To Cripple The Biden FCC | We’ve noted at length how the GOP is rushing this week to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC. Simington, you’ll recall, wrote Trump’s ridiculous executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the essent... |
| Dec 3, 2020 | With Simington Vote, The GOP And Big Telecom Maneuver To Cripple The Biden FCC | We've noted at length how the GOP is rushing this week to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC. Simington, you'll recall, wrote Trump's ridiculous executive order targeting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the essent... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Biden & Senate Democrats Announce Right-To-Work Laws Are On The Chopping Block If They Win | Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham, left, and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. talk during a ... [+] televised debate Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, Pool)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Oct 17, 2020 | Businesses Are Staring At The Possibility Of Both Federal & State Corporate Tax Hikes In 2021 | Democratic Presidential candidate and former US Vice President Joe Biden participates in an ABC News ... [+] town hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on October 15, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM ... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | For First Time In Six Years A Carbon Tax Won’t Be On The Ballot, But Politicians Supporting One Will | Democratic presidential nominee and former US Vice President Joe Biden (L) and vice presidential ... [+] running mate, US Senator Kamala Harris, arrive to conduct their first press conference together in Wilmington, Delaware, on August 12, ... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | U.S. Supreme Court To Decide If A Texas Law Interfering With Interstate Commerce Can Stand | The United States Supreme Court Buildinggetty |
| Aug 31, 2020 | California Taxpayers Can Check Out Any Time They Like, But Lawmakers Still Want To Tax Those Who Leave | New bill seeks to continue taxing Californians even after they leave the state. getty |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Thinking Beyond PPP Loans To Target Broad-Based Economic Growth | President/CEO of Joseph’s Premier Real Estate; professor of finance, business, real estate at IRSC; author of Madness, Miracles, Millions. |
| May 23, 2020 | New Portland Tax Hike Targets The Rich, But Hits Small Businesses. Joe Biden’s Plan Has The Same Flaw | Portland, Oregon, where voters approved gas and income tax hikes in the May 19 primary. Getty |
| May 18, 2020 | How The Private Sector Is Stepping Up Amid The Pandemic | FILE - In this April 30, 2020, file photo Vice President Mike Pence tours the General Motors/Ventec ... [+] ventilator production facility with GM CEO and Chairman Mary Barra in Kokomo, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Apr 7, 2020 | How To Make The Phase 4 Coronavirus Response All About Regulatory Reform (Not Just Spending) | When it comes to spending money we don’ t have and calling it rescue, the nation has been there, done that, bought the t-shirt. |
| Sep 15, 2019 | Reviewing The Democratic Candidates' Tax Plans. First Up: Bernie Sanders | If you tuned in to one of the initial Democratic debates this past summer, you were greeted by a stage more over-stuffed with diverse personalities than a country-western variety show. Kamala and Elizabeth and Yodelin' Zeke! Biden and Beto ... |
| Jan 30, 2018 | Fact-checking the economic claims Trump is likely to make in his State of the Union address | |
| Jan 10, 2018 | Less than meets eye: Bonuses, not raises, from U.S. tax cuts | Washington —
American Airlines is handing out $1,000 bonuses to its employees. So are AT&T, Bank of America and Nationwide Insurance. The same for Comcast, JetBlue Airways and US Bancorp.
Such announcements , coming from dozens of compa... |
| Jul 16, 2017 | A year with the PAX Labs Juul vaporizer | Nicotine vaporizer companies have a bit of a conundrum. While, legally, they can’t market themselves as smoking cessation devices, most vapers are current or former cigarette smokers. In fact, the CDC says that fewer than 4 percent people w... |
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| Jan 27, 2017 | Here's How Republicans Plan to Kill Net Neutrality, Climate, and Labor Rules | Republicans in Congress are wasting no time laying the groundwork for a wholesale attack on federal regulations protecting the environment, guaranteeing internet freedom, and ensuring consumer safety and labor rights.
The Republican-control... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | Here's Why Republicans Should Not Be Getting Into Burning Man | Photo by Vito Fun
If you pay attention to the American political scumbag carnival, you’ve probably heard of Grover Norquist. He’s the head of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobbying group known for keeping tight reins on the Republican Party t... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | How the maker of TurboTax fought free, simple tax filing | reader comments 342 with 159 posters participating
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| Aug 13, 2010 | The Tea Party Hates Net Neutrality Because It's An 'Affront' To Free Speech. Umm… | The Tea Party, the “American socio-political movement that emerged in 2009 through a series of locally and nationally coordinated protests,” and known for its colorful protest signs (as seen here), hates Net Neutrality. Why does the Tea Par... |
| Feb 5, 2010 | Carly Fiorina’s crazy attack video | Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate seat currently held by Barbara Boxer. So is former Silicon Valley House representative Tom Campbell. Fiorina’s campaign has produced a video accusing Campbell of being a ... |
| Dec 17, 2009 | Songwriters Guild: Network Neutrality Means More Piracy | There has been an effort made by some to try to connect the totally unrelated issues of network neutrality and unauthorized file sharing together. There is no connection between the two, but that won’t stop busy lobbyists from doing their b... |
| Democrats are trying to sneak a massive, under-the-radar tax cut for the wealthiest Americans into their Build Back Better plan. The move is ridiculous. | House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Drew Angerer/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Amazon quietly gave $400,000 to conservative nonprofit that opposed new antitrust legislation | Amazon quietly donated $400,000 to a conservative nonprofit last year as the group pushed back on antitrust bills being considered in Congress.
The Independent Women’s Forum, a 501(c)(3) organization, received the six-figure contribution fr... |
