#Taxes

Like many teachers in the Northeast, today I'm teaching from home during a snow day. It's going to be interesting to see if this becomes a regular expectation after the
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Many people still have no idea Obama provided them stimulus payments, because he did it in the form of a payroll tax cut. It was invisible. That was the wrong
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Fiscal Responsibility & COVIDOn 12/31/2015, just before the start of my 1st term, County gov had a General Fund Cash Balance (kind of like a family's bank account) of $2.2m.
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Today the Trump administration has finalized a new regulation on asylum that breaks the United States' promise to protect the vulnerable and ensure that no person is deported to their
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If this increase in demand could be accommodated, it would lead to a level of output at 14% above potential. It would take the unemployment rate very close to
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Why is Finland today an equal country? Is it something inherent to the Nordic culture, or is it a result of more recent institutional changes?We have something to say in
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Before year-end, Congress needs to provide a “look-back” provision -- just like they did for private equity-owned companies – to protect struggling families from losing EITC and Child Tax Credits
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Happy to see the City take action. Bc of my liquor license work, this has been one of my pet issues. Most ppl have no idea how predatory and shady
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Adani,Ambani &other corporates had an eye on massive food grain market of India.They had few problems:Problem 1 : States had different rules ®ulations 2buy food grains frm farmers. It was
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I still find myself amazed that decades of cost-benefit analyses of crim justice policy in econ, criminology and other fields never seriously wrestled w opportunity cost.If $1 spent on, say,
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We're all underpaid pls shut tf up with this who deserves what discourse and turn your indignation toward the feds Americans are so ignorant about this shit and I know
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Targeted anti-poverty measures are not as politically popular as measures aimed at helping the middle class. It is thus incumbent upon progressives to praise these measures when they are proposed.
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It’s been quite a year.We are now 20 years into this century, In America, the twenty years since 2000 have seen the end game of the Reagan Revolution, begun in
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Your regular reminder that the provincial government is spending 100s of millions of $ a year to lower multimillionaire homeowners’ property taxes. And they just raised the maximum threshold. Imagine
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We don't have a decent welfare state in this country, which is part of why young people are hesitant to have lots of kids! Which cost money! In a country
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Just released the billing UI of @turnshiftapp. I never imagined it to be so complex. I spent a lot of time on it and learned about @stripe subscriptions, VAT rules,
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