#Congress should raise taxes to fight inflation ‘right now’

#Congress should raise taxes to fight inflation ‘right now’

“Congress should raise taxes to fight inflation ‘right now’” Congress is missing an opportunity to combat decades-high inflation by failing to implement tax hikes, former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers asserted on Friday. Summers, a frequent critic of the federal response to inflation, argued that lawmakers should consider raising taxes as another means of…

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#Facts Trump Dems’ claims on Donald’s economy

#Facts Trump Dems’ claims on Donald’s economy

“#Facts Trump Dems’ claims on Donald’s economy” When President Donald Trump took office in 2017, economists around the world had accepted the fact that the US economy had entered the “new normal” where economic growth would be low, and wage growth nonexistent. Trump’s team argued that deregulation, trade policy and tax cuts could bring us…

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#Amazon wins EU court fight over 0 million tax bill

#Amazon wins EU court fight over $300 million tax bill

“#Amazon wins EU court fight over $300 million tax bill” In the latest setback to European Union efforts to tackle corporate tax avoidance, a court on Wednesday annulled a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between Amazon and Luxembourg’s government amounted to illegal state support. The EU’s executive branch ordered the US…

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#Andrew Cuomo’s pathetic SALT obsession

#Andrew Cuomo’s pathetic SALT obsession

“#Andrew Cuomo’s pathetic SALT obsession” Even when he’s begging business leaders to stay in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo can’t let go of his obsession with SALT. Ever since President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform capped the deduction for state and local taxes to $10,000, Cuomo has been on a tear looking to restore it….

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#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary

“#Don’t raise corporate taxes and other commentary” Economist: Don’t Raise Corporate Taxes Even if President Biden wanted to raise revenue to address America’s “mountain of debt” (rather than for his dubious $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” plan), hiking corporate taxes “is the wrong way to go about it,” contends Allison Schrager at City Journal. The Trump tax…

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