| Oct 30, 2013 | Environment / HealthAre you tired of the political brinksmanship, eleventh-hour deals, and avoidable financial crises that characterize business as usual in Congress? So is the wind energy industry. Once again, one of the few mechanisms in the tax code designed to reward clean-energy...
| Oct 2, 2013 | Economy / BusinessA hundred years ago, on October 3, 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the first modern federal tax on income. John Buenker has been writing about the events that led to that signing for a good bit of the last 50 years. His 1985 book, The Income Tax and the...
| | 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...
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