Br. Steve | January 31, 2012
Last week I wrote about the support in Catholic Social Thought for a more progressive tax structure, especially capital gains taxes. Yesterday , a CBS/New York Times poll revealed that 55% of the U.S. thinks that the wealthy in this country do not pay their fair share of taxes and 52% support taxing capital gains [...]
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Br. Steve | January 27, 2012
The issue of taxes and the overall fairness of the U.S. tax structure has been in the news again recently with the release of Mitt Romney’s tax return for 2010 and projected tax return for 2011. According to the papers released, Romney paid just 13.9% of his income in taxes in 2010 and expects to [...]
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