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media mention December 17, 2012 Newsday: New York should pass its Dream Act
(Original Post) Published: April 11, 2012 6:13 PMBy CARL HAYDEN Carl Hayden is former Regents chancellor and former chairman of the SUNY Board of Trustees. Undocumented young people are everywhere… -
media mention December 17, 2012 John Hopkins News-Letter: Illegal immigration is not the problem
(Original Post) By NIKKO PRICE Published: Saturday, April 14, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012 21:04 This week, the Christian Science Monitor reported that illegal immigration in the United States… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Greenwich Times: ‘Buffet Rule’ would hit Connecticut hard
(Original Post) Charles J. LewisPublished 06:18 p.m., Saturday, April 14, 2012 WASHINGTON — Many well-heeled Connecticut taxpayers are likely to pay close attention to how the state’s two senators vote… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Wall Street Journal: Taxes–Who Really Is Paying Up
(Original Post) Updated April 15, 2012, 12:08 a.m. ET By ANDREA COOMBES Do you pay your fair share in taxes? Even as President Barack Obama pitches the “Buffett rule” to… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Great Falls Tribune: Montana lawmakers split with Buffett Rule coming to head
5:11 AM, Apr. 15, 2012 | WASHINGTON — Should millionaires be required to pay higher taxes? Montana’s U.S. lawmakers are split over the issue, which is expected to be front… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Birmingham News: Funding for Alabama’s Northern Beltline uncertain
(Original Post) Published: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 9:00 AM Updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 4:56 PM By Thomas Spencer As the Alabama Department of Transportation prepares to embark on one… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Huffington Post: Time for a 99 Percent Tax Revolt
(Original Post) Elizabeth ParisianPolicy analyst, Stand Up! Chicago With Tax Day tomorrow, it seems like the subject of taxes — tax policy, tax fairness, tax reform — is on everyone’s… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Market Watch: Taxes: Are you paying your fair share?
(Original Post) By Andrea Coombes, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Do you pay your fair share in taxes? Even as President Barack Obama pitches the “Buffett rule” to ensure that… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Connecticut News Junkie: Taxes Build Our State and Nation
(Original Post) by Wade Gibson | Apr 16, 2012 9:55am For Easter, my friend and I traveled from Connecticut to visit family down in Texas, a distance of nearly 2,000… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Huffington Post: Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline
(Original Post) Luke JohnsonPosted: 04/17/2012 8:09 am Updated: 04/17/2012 8:09 am The top eight companies that spent the most on federal lobbying from 2007 to 2009 all saw their reported… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Tennessean: Activists hold bake sale to make point about Tennessee taxes
(Original Post) Posted on April 17, 2012 by Chas Sisk Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, a group that advocates a state income tax, never seems to give up. The legislature may… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Progressive Pulse: On Tax Day, demonstrators seek tax equality for the 99%
(Original Post) Post on April 17, 2012 by Clayton HenkelAs last-minute tax filers scramble to get their taxes in by Tuesday’s midnight deadline, demonstrators gathered outside the Bank of America… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Huffington Post: Breakfast With the One Percent
(Original Post) 04/18/2012 6:35 pmSarita Gupta is the Executive Director of National Jobs with Justice. 6:00 a.m. — A Verizon cell phone, which doubles as your alarm clock, goes off.… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Courier News: MoveOn protests tax inequity
6:20 AM, Apr. 18, 2012 Written by Bob Makin Staff Writer CENTRAL JERSEY — Nearly two dozen MoveOn members participated in the organization’s Tax the 1% National Day of Action… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A sorry story of transit and taxes: State legislators support the wealthy over the many who need mass transit
(Original Post) April 18, 2012 12:00 am By Natalia Rudiak We are the wealthiest nation in the world. So why are we struggling to maintain basic public services? It seems… -
media mention December 17, 2012 South End Patch: Massive Tax Day Rally Envelops Financial District
(Original Post) Hundreds of concerned citizens took to the streets of the Financial District Tuesday to protest “tax-dodging” corporations. By Andrew Jeromski A Massive group of protesters took to… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Wichita Eagle: League of Women Voters speaks out against Kansas income tax plans
(Original Post) By BRENT D. WISTROMEagle Topeka bureau Published Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 5:33 p.m. TOPEKA — The League of Women Voters of Kansas, usually noted for their opposition… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Press TV: No fair share for war taxes
(Original Post) Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:29PM GMT Frida Berrigan, Waging Nonviolence I am big fan of the post office in general and of my local post office in particular.… -
media mention December 17, 2012 St. Louis Post Dispatch: Missouri can’t afford to leave $400 million on the table
Monday, April 23, 2012 | 10:21 a.m. CDT BY St. Louis Post-Dispatch Forty-four of the 50 states in the nation don’t allow it. Missouri does, and in 2011, the practice… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Business Week: A Tax Windfall From the Housing Bust
(Original Post) By Amanda J. Crawford on April 26, 2012 As Karen Jacobs, an economist in Arizona’s Department of Revenue, was reviewing income tax data for 2010, she came across… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Fairfield County Business Journal: Corporations dodge taxes, hand small biz the bill
(Original Post) by Janice Kirkel The amount the average American small business had to pay in 2011 to cover the cost of corporate abuse of tax havens was $2,116.The amount… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Casper Star-Tribune: Wyoming ranks high again for economic growth
(Original Post) By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau | Posted: Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:00 am CHEYENNE — Wyoming again ranks fourth among states for best economic growth and outlook,… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Philadelphia Inquirer: Pa.’s tax dodgers don’t deserve a break
(Original Post) Posted: Tue, May. 1, 2012, 3:00 AM Sharon Ward For too long, big companies have benefited from Pennsylvania lawmakers’ refusal to close tax loopholes. They have been free… -
media mention December 17, 2012 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Aches, pains and oil taxes: The weaknesses in governor’s plan were coming out
by Richard Fineberg May 06, 2012 The legislative special session ended early, saving Alaska from misguided petroleum legislation. Conflicting information on oil and gas revenue issues confounded deliberations, suggesting that… -
media mention December 17, 2012 The Hutchinson News: DC group criticizes Kan. plan for cutting taxes
Published: 5/8/2012 10:01 PM | Last update: 5/8/2012 10:01 PM TOPEKA – A Washington think tank says a tax-cutting package in the Kansas Legislature would shift part of the tax…