House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel’s ethics problems continue.
House ethics rules prohibit Congressmen from requesting anything of value from any person or entity having any business before Congress.
The New York Times reports that less than a month after he approached AIG for a contribution to a school that City College of New York (CUNY) was building in [...]
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The Western Canon of literature has been all but emasculated in recent decades by left-wing PC forces that rule academia.
Dead European White Males are, in some cases, automatically excluded from curricula on the grounds that their formerly high regard is merely the product of patriarchal white society that has historically discriminated against women and minorities.
Translation: Maya Angelou is [...]
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Led by Governor Paterson, New York is considering the imposition of a tax on sugary drinks according to TaxGirl, Kelly Phillips-Erb:
[T]he state of New York is considering imposing a so-called “fat tax.” While each municipality is a little different, the New York proposal would slap an 18% tax on sodas and sugar-filled drinks which contain [...]
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In 1997 President Clinton signed into law a bill that entirely eliminated the capital gains tax on profits of $500,000.00 or less on the sale of most homes.
Now, some economists are saying that the sale-of-residence capital gain exclusion was a significant contributing factor in creating the housing bubble the New York Times reports in Tax [...]
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Jim Abrams of The Washington Post reports that the tax policy advocacy group, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), oppose President-elect Obama’s plan to cut (but not eliminate) the estate tax:
President-elect Barack Obama has proposed a change that would prevent the estate tax from disappearing in 2010, but which would also unnecessarily cut the estate tax below [...]
Tags: Estate Tax · Opinion · Tax Policy