Posts Tagged ‘wealth’
Pearidge, Trauma; 99 to 1; and The Self-Made Myth
The evening before Easter, well wined and dined at a fine Italian restaurant, we have returned to my mother’s house in DC. My brother and I are extracting our 92-year-old mother from his giant Chevy Tahoe. We turn, and there is my husband Tom, crumpled in the gutter, a pool of blood spreading under his ...Read more.
NYS Assembly Hearings on Property Tax Cap
Polly Cleveland, author of our current lead article, Restore the Original Wealth Tax, testified before the New York State legislature yesterday, arguing against Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to cap property tax increases at 2% or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. See below for her testimony. Polly reported that someone from a ...Read more.
More on Property Taxes; More on Bill Black
(1) More from Polly Cleveland on Property Taxes: A couple of posts ago I complained about the New York Times’ coverage of deficits and taxes. The one that really steamed me reported on a NYT/CBS News poll in which a majority of people allegedly preferred cutting spending to raising taxes as a way of dealing ...Read more.
