Posts Tagged ‘taxes

Check out our new infographic that will go along with our "End The Bush Tax Cuts for the Mega-Rich" petition. Please sign it if you haven't...

Sign the petition to let the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% expire at the end of the year. Click Here

One of our members, who joined via the website, emailed his in-depth analysis of the well-tread assumption that "tax cuts create jobs". According to Sid, "It proves statistically that there is no relationship between either low taxes and prosperity, or...

Video from our Tax Day action in Washington, DC on April, 15,...

“We did.”

April 16, 2010 | In: Commentary

President Obama on Thursday, 4/15: "In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we haven't done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year -- another promise that we kept," he told supporters at the Arsht...

Here's an interesting piece on how you can help fight for fairer taxes for everyone: "Tax Day touches deep nerves about the fairness of our tax system and the way our tax dollars are spent. It also offers a great opportunity to talk about what we value...

This is interesting example of how big companies continue to shift their tax burden to working people. In a clarification, Exxon stated that it did pay $7.7 billion in "other taxes" like sales tax.  Sales tax? That isn't revenue from their profits but...