New Orleans Big headlines in the New York papers last week about an Indian man being pushed in front of a subway to his death by a mentally deranged woman bent on killing Muslim “terrorists,” no matter how Hindu. I immediately thought of the gates on subway platforms that I saw so recently in Tokyo …
Month: January 2013
Shore up Social Security: Remove Payroll Tax $113,000 Cap!
New Orleans Eventually reading all of this point, counterpoint baloney about the fiscal cliff, debt ceilings, bankrupt social security system, and national debt just makes your head hurt. It’s at that point that you start stumbling around and miss the simple things, like this: “Why in blue blazes is there a payroll tax cap on wages …
The Company They Keep: Tax Tit Deductions, the Right, & Big Whine Charities
New Orleans So you might ask in all of the hoopla as the USA went over the fiscal cliff, what happened to the charitable deductions that I have written about several times? Well, there were some modest changes because some ceilings were place on the value of personal exemptions and itemized deductions for high-income tax filers …