The Free Times reported that the house this week passed a bill to raise taxes. On the poor. The bill also shifts taxes off of businesses. Sue Berkowitz with SC Appleseed summed it up nicely. “It’s robbing the poor to pay the rich.”
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Paul Ryan Budget – Much Needed Relief for the Wealthy
Paul Ryan released his proposed budget this week. When he looks at the state of the US economy, he apparently sees a lot of people struggling to get by…on as little as $250,000 a year in the most extreme cases. What is the state of the US economy? In 2011, unemployment hovered around 9 percent. … Continue reading »
When Tea Partiers Find Themselves On Food Stamps…
“I don’t demand that the government does this for me. I don’t feel like I need the government,” said KI GULBRANSON, who counts on an earned-income tax credit and has signed up his children for free meals at school. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times) The New York Times ran an excellent, lengthy article yesterday about the … Continue reading »
SC: Getting Noticed For All The Wrong Reasons
The Palmetto State and SC Appleseed got some attention in The Nation this week. Sadly, it came in the magazine’s “This Week in Poverty” department and for our state legislature’s campaign against the unemployed. Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women’s Law Center, notes that South Carolina—which last year reduced … Continue reading »
