New Orleans This is all getting to be very scary. At first you think, wow, how can this be happening here, and then you realize that you are not living through some kind of sick social experiment of reverse Robin Hoodism, but instead are just one test tube of a right wing Republican lab experiment …
Category: National Politics
We are Made for this Moment
New Orleans I didn’t listen to President Obama’s 2nd inaugural speech. I’m just sick to death of hearing him talk, talk, talk all of the time talking. But, I read the speech, and I’m heartened. Finally, this is a President for me at least right now, this minute, who is saying he is sick of …
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 …