House tax plan is off by over $700 billion, will add more to the U.S deficit...
When the House released its Trump-GOP tax bill last week Americans found out that this proposed legislations would increase the U.S. deficit by $1.4 trillion over the next ten years. However, further...
View Article13% of NC households would face a tax increase under Senate GOP tax plan
A new report finds that the Senate tax plan, which was just introduced on Nov. 9, would raise taxes on some families while giving the largest share of tax cuts to wealthy Americans and foreign...
View ArticleOne in six North Carolinians struggle with hunger; GOP tax plan threatens to...
Over the last few years, North Carolina has remained one of the hungriest places in the US. With one in six people defined as “food-insecure,” North Carolina is the 10th hungriest state in the nation....
View ArticleMust read: Veteran journalist says GOP tax cuts feed “cancer of inequality”
Hedrick Smith, a truly great American journalist who, among many other positions, once served as Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, is out with some new and scathing analysis of the GOP...
View ArticleMemo to Tillis and Burr: Proposed “trigger” in Senate tax bill is flawed,...
The U.S. Senate is currently debating its tax plan and rushing to vote on it by the end of this week with the hopes of getting tax legislation to President Trump by the end of the year. One new and...
View ArticleThe nation (unfortunately) follows North Carolina’s lead in slashing taxes...
If you haven’t seen it already, an article in the business section of yesterday’s Washington Post (“What happened when North Carolina cut taxes like the GOP plans to for the country”) is worth your...
View ArticleGrowing the deficit will lead to immediate cuts to core programs in our...
Congress follows several deficit-control mechanisms that govern tax and spending decisions in any given year to ensure that the deficit does not increase and spending is arbitrarily constrained. PAYGO,...
View ArticleBurr and Tillis wage class warfare on behalf of the 1%
If you’re looking for the most accurate summation of the GOP tax legislation working its way through Congress and the scandalous actions of North Carolina’s two U.S. senators in aiding and abetting the...
View ArticleWe knew GOP tax plan supporters were dishonest, but this is embarrassing
A lot of people are probably aware that it’s a favored tactic of the corporate right to buy off and manufacture “grass roots” support for their lobbying efforts, but it still never ceases to amaze...
View ArticleThe best editorial of the Christmas weekend blasts Senator Tillis’ take on taxes
Raleigh’s News & Observer was right on the money over the weekend in “With sweeping tax cuts, US follows NC over a fiscal cliff.” As the editorial explained, the notion that North Carolina’s...
View ArticleFive things to have on your radar this week
#1 – Activists who have staged weekly protests outside Senator Thom Tillis’ office in Raleigh for nearly a year brave the frigid temps and return today at 11:30 am to express their outrage at his vote...
View ArticleMust read editorial: Duke should pass along federal tax break to consumers
This morning’s Capitol Broadcasting Company editorial on WRAL.com hits the nail on the head with its conclusion that Duke energy should be required to pass along its recent federal tax windfall to...
View ArticleAnother big lie in new GOP tax law exposed
Rebekah Entralgo at Think Progress has an important story exposing one of the more blatant and outrageous scams in the nation’s new tax law that was enacted by President Trump and congressional...
View ArticleProposed Federal Tax Cut 2.0 will not help North Carolinians. Here are three...
What is happening? Under the heading “Tax Reform 2.0,” the House Ways and Means Committee has introduced new proposed legislation that follows the federal tax plan that was passed into law by President...
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