…case that there has been a social compact between one generation of Americans and the next: to pass along an inheritance of a stronger country full of greater promise and possibility. And that social compact has been protected at great…
…Welcome to the nightmarish inheritance we are preparing for our children and grandchildren. Let's Begin the Year With a Major Victory Over Corporate Power http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28379-the-movement-can-begin-the-year-with…
…served. At the start of its sixth year, the Obama administration runs the risk of remaining intellectually stuck, cleaning up the inheritance of the Bush years. Yet major global changes, including the rise of other powers and widespread social protests…
…of financing a capital grant, say $10K, to be paid to every citizen at age 18, financed out of a beefier inheritance tax. I don't much care for that one, but maybe others in WCEG like it.. If so…
…of rising debt loads poor students must incur to get a college education, a slowdown in small-business formation, and trends in inheritances, among other issues. But in many ways the issues she leaves out are more instructive. In particular…
…extension of the Bush tax breaks for the wealthy. In addition, they threw in a demand that the inheritance tax, which was due to return to its pre-2001 levels at the first of the year, be cut as well…
…two great Presidents committed to protecting federal lands, marinescapes and wild places,” Podesta said. “We do this work to protect and preserve our greatest inheritance for our children, grandchildren and future generations, but it is still a thrill to be…
…equity, savings, and inheritance) and pass it on to their children, the study said. The cruelest thing about buying diapers Wonkblog – Emily Badger…
…$200 billion in tax revenue each year. Most of this amount comes from the evasion of taxes on investment income, but a significant chunk comes from fraud on inheritances. In the United States, the annual tax loss is $35 billion…
…less enthusiasm among labor and African-Americans, among other core Democratic voters. No one would deny the admirable side of the Mugwump inheritance: the policies it helped to implement, the idealism it represents, the commitment to principles like clean campaigning…
…one can argue that Clinton benefits from the association, but the whole point of a political “dynasty” is the inheritance – some are born into powerful families, and they parlay that status to advance their public-service ambitions. That’s not…
…of the Federal Estate Tax.” Note, there are still 19 states plus the District of Columbia that impose their own state versions of death taxes (estate and/or inheritance taxes). Vermont is one; it has an exemption of $2.75…
…in the mid-1960s, Sanders, his then-wife and his brother pooled some inheritance money and bought a small piece of the dream. "We had never been to Vermont in our lives; we just drove up," Sanders says. "We bought…
…left the Oval office. The foreign-policy preoccupations of the Clinton years presented themselves as moral dilemmas – such as Bosnia or Rwanda – rather than as threats to national security. Mr Clinton’s economic inheritance was similarly golden. The frightening deficits…
…gay partnerships as men were denied access to their dying partners in hospitals, were evicted from the homes they shared when loved ones died and had no inheritance rights. The initial response came in the form of domestic partnerships. It…
…In this novel, Grace Monroe, a newlywed 1950's London socialite, receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame d' Orsey. Though unsure of d' Orsey's identity upon receiving the inheritance, Monroe sets out on a life-changing…
…power as a major shareholder to force a raise in the wages of the hundreds of thousands of Walmart associates who make less in a year of work than Walton does in 10 minutes from interest on her inheritance. 3…
…to claim the land he bequeathed us. Were we to exert a fraction of the efforts we invest in fighting over that physical inheritance in living up to the moral example Abraham bequeathed us, Israel/Palestine would look much different…
…shareholder to force a raise in the wages of the hundreds of thousands > of Walmart associates who make less in a year of work than Walton does > in 10 minutes from interest on her inheritance. > > 3…
…long, ranging from more infrastructure spending (with new measures to improve project management on federal infrastructure deals), more preschool, closing corporate tax and inheritance tax loopholes, curbing the deductibility of executive pay, a tax cut for middle class workers, more…
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