Tax Policy

The Fiscal Cliff Deal's Impact on New York

Well, contrary to Mayan belief, America made it to 2013 without jumping off the fiscal cliff. Yesterday, at around 9 p.m. or so, the House passed a bill sent from the Senate by a 265-157 vote. After weeks of non-toiling, it's finally over . . . but, in more ways than none, the war has only begun.We' ... More >>

What The Fiscal Cliff Means For New York

New Year's Eve is a night to reflect on the year that's past. It's a night to commit to a resolution you'll never follow, a night to face the next year with a massive hangover and a night to over-plan and over-commit to. And, for Washington, it's a night to jump off the fiscal cliff.As soon as ... More >>

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

Will Barack Obama Veto Tax Cuts?

Well, this is a mess... Remember yesterday, when Barack Obama called on Congress to extend Bush-era tax cuts for families making up to $250,000? Remember how Obama made the politically risky move of describing the economy as disappointing under his watch, using that as proof the country needs tax ... More >>

Barack Obama Calls for Tax Cut Extension: Should You Care?

Barack Obama will call on Congress today to enact a one-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class. Media accounts of Obama's mandate indicate that the president's tax relief plan would pertain to families making less than $250,000. If Congress does not OK the prez's pitch, this cou ... More >>

Barack Obama To Congress: Extend Tax Cuts for The Middle Class

Taking aim at trickle down fiscal policies and warning legislators not to hold the American economy "hostage," President Barack Obama demanded today that Congress extend Bush-era middle class tax cuts for a year. Addressing the nation from the White House's East Room, Obama implored Congress to "do ... More >>

Scott Stringer's State of the Borough Address: Reclaim City For Middle and Working Class

In the land of politics, it's that wonderful time of the year when we opine about the state of things. Last month, President Obama talked about the state of the country, Governor Cuomo discussed the state of New York state, and Mayor Bloomberg chatted about the state of the Big Apple. Last night, ... More >>

Billionaire's March Occupies the Upper East Side

​Yesterday at noon, protesters gathered at 59th Street and 5th Avenue (just across the street from the Plaza Hotel) for the Billionaire's March, a picket of the homes of five of New York's richest men: Rupert Murdoch, David Koch, Howard Milstein, Jamie Dimon, and John Paulson. Separate from ye ... More >>

Rightbloggers Defend Rich Bastards from Obama's Tax Plan

If rightbloggers believe in anything, it's that taxes are bad -- especially if they're on people making over a million dollars. When it was revealed that President Obama would propose a tax on millionaires, the brethren loyally manned the barricades to defend America's rich -- e.g., Donald Trump, ... More >>

Rightbloggers: S&P Downgrade of U.S. Means We're On The Right Track

Last week, hot on the heels of the Congressional debt-ceiling fiasco and the ensuing stock market drop, Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit rating of the United States of America from AAA to AA , and placed the ailing superpower on "CreditWatch with negative implications." The reactions of Ame ... More >>

Don't Ask Don't Tell Opponents Pick Up Some Unlikely Support

While John McCain gets crankier and crankier about repealing Don't Ask, Don't tell, opponents of the policy have picked up a couple of unlikely allies on the right. After much lobbying, Sen. Scott Brown has finally come around and said he will consider voting to end Don't Ask (along with the usua ... More >>

House Republicans Give Unemployed the Finger

​Almost 100,000 unemployed New Yorkers whose unemployment benefits are expiring will have a very not-so-merry Christmas this year now that House Republicans have killed a proposed $56 billion benefits extension, the Daily News says.

Morning Links: Heroin Bust in Hell's Kitchen; Less-Popular Obama Won't Cave on Tax Cuts; Adventures in Bikram with Lady Gaga

​• Happy Friday! The heroin den formerly located at 417 W. 43rd St., inside, as the New York Post puts it, a "Next to Normal-seeming ground-floor duplex," (wink, wink! groan, groan) has been busted and a stash worth $6.5 million has been seized. Note: when the neighbors move in and put black ... More >>

Andrew Cuomo's Biggest Rival Won't Be the G.O.P.

It's Shelly Silver and the old-school Dems in his race to Governor

New York Papers on the Budget: "Christmas," a "Decade of Pain"

Tax-and-spend Democratic rule is great! says the Daily News, which reckons that the President's recently-announced budget is "Christmas in February for New York." They say aid to "low-income, working families afford child care will effectively double," and so will food stamps, and block grants to ... More >>

California Budget: Another Reason to Love New York

Hasta la vista, assholes. The California legislature has just passed a budget that uses "spending cuts, tax increases and borrowing" to help close a $42 billion dollar deficit. Why do we bring you this exotic news from the other side of the country? To make you feel better about New York's $1.6 b ... More >>

Bloomberg Asks Gov for Money; Other Mayors Content with Taxes, Fines

After the "withdrawal" of Bloomberg ally Caroline Kennedy, and slightly in advance of leaks that Kirsten Gillibrand would go to the Senate instead, Governor Paterson caught some flak from Mayor Bloomberg. Bloomberg complained about the $646 million that the Paterson cut from state funds to the city, ... More >>

Liveblogging! Debate 2

Live Drunk Liveblogging the Palin-Biden Debate, Part I

Paterson Grilled at Breakfast on "Bloodsuckers," Obama, Apt., Etc.

13th District Candidates Have "Conversations" on WABC

Black Gold Vs. Corporate Gold

Calvin Klein's $3,500 Sweater

Go ahead and melt your jewelry to pay for it

A Humpty's Fall

Morning Report 1/13/06
Your Bankruptcies, Their Bonuses Break Records

Morning Report 11/16/05
Bush Speaks the Truth!

Morning Report 10/17/05
GOP Gets Bolder. Prepare to Be Crushed

Weiner & The Rating Game

Morning Report 7/19/05
'Stick to Principle. Stick to Principle.'

Corporate Tax Rewrite

Do They Take Us for Fools? Yes.

Upon Further Review: The Cheney-Edwards Judges Fumbled

Drain the Treasury, Pour in the Votes

Desperate Bush touts phony "middle-class" tax cut

Bush Was Born a Ramblin' Man

President gets perkier, but still careens toward incoherent

More Taxing News for Humans

The GOP as Charity Case

Just the conventional tax break, please—helping out the republicans

This Is Rich

Inside a Bush Brainstorming Session

Come Out Fighting

Boxing George Bush Into a Corner in 2004

Pataki's Class Bias

Guv Seeks Sacrifice From Average New Yorkers, Protects High-End Friends

Pataki's Prattle

Job-Jingo Governor Proposes 'State-Killing' Budget

Read My Lips

Pataki's No-Tax Vow Is Salt to City's Wounds

Nation

Rudy's Gift to Mike

A Fiscal Legacy That Will Haunt the Bloomberg Years

The Battle of 2016

Progressives and Bush’s Wall Street Go to War Over Your Social Security Benefits

Trust Fund Trussed?

World Trade Center Lease Deal Could Slash Housing Revenue

Bush Pats Corporations, Pads Rich Pockets

Oops, Says Prez. Let's Keep That AIDS Office

Nation

Read My Rips

Clinton Confronts Governors

Moderately Republican

The Power of the Maine-stream

Pataki's Pap

The make-believe governor spins his boomtime fantasy