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Category Archives: Taxes
WA ballot initiative would cut $848.6M of environmental programs
If passed, Initiative 2117 would repeal the state’s new Climate Commitment Act, which has raised more than $2B for projects like electrifying transit. by John Stang in Crosscut The M/V Guemes crosses the channel between Anacortes and Guemes Island. The 45-year-old vessel is scheduled … Continue reading
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NYT letter about the tax code
Thanks to Mike C.: A good letter in 6/23/24 NY Times (that I did not write): To the Editor: In his anguished attempt to place the country’s woes at the doorstep of progressives, David Brooks ignores the single greatest creation … Continue reading
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We Ran the Treasury Department. This Is How to Fix Tax Evasion.
By Timothy F. Geithner, Jacob J. Lew, Henry M. Paulson Jr., Robert E. Rubin and Lawrence H. Summers in the NYT The authors are former U.S. Treasury secretaries. Mr. Geithner and Mr. Lew served under President Barack Obama, Mr. Paulson under President George W. Bush, and … Continue reading
Please tax my capital-gains profits: Washington’s crises demand it
By Nick Hanauer – Special to The Seattle Times If you’re expecting yet another dire warning characterizing the wealth tax on capital gains making its way through Washington’s Legislature as a job killing, big government assault on freedom, you’re reading the … Continue reading
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