| Oct 2, 2013 | Economy / BusinessOur tax money As it stands, Oft ends up In private hands. These economically challenging times haven’t ended the golden deals every level of government offers business. State and federal statutes remain loaded with these giveaways. They include grants,...
| Sep 18, 2013 | Economy / BusinessThe federal budget expresses our nation’s values and priorities in numbers. It’s a blueprint for how our elected officials plan to make money and how they plan to spend it. What happens in Washington, D.C. has a profound local impact. About 80 percent of...
| Aug 14, 2013 | Economy / BusinessWhile pretty much everybody agrees that the U.S. tax code is a mess, nobody does anything about it. Oh, politicians talk about doing something, but mainly what they do is make it worse. There’s a reason for this. You. You’re the reason. People, alas, tend...
| Jul 31, 2013 | Economy / BusinessFor weeks, we watched Representative Darrell Issa and the conservative media circus concoct a “scandal” surrounding the IRS’s handling of applications by tea party groups for tax-exempt status. The California Republican and his allies then sought to...
