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California Schemin’
Rendering of proposed Rams Inglewood stadium Guest Blog by Thomas Mattera Most of the hot air released at last month’s National Football League owners meeting in San Francisco had nothing to do with...
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Business Fights FASB on Corporate Welfare Disclosure
Time Magazine Large corporations spend a lot of time complaining about their obligations to government, such as paying taxes and complying with regulations, while saying very little about what they get...
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Trump: The Art of the Tax Deal
Donald Trump is famous for making high-profile deals using other people’s money. Sometimes those other people are not his business partners or lenders but rather the taxpayers. For a figure who is seen...
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The Wrongs of States’ Rights
The publication of the Panama Papers is a bombshell, though the fallout is being felt much more in countries such as Iceland than in the United States. It’s true that the revelations about offshore tax...
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Manufacturing McJobs at Nissan and Elsewhere
Bring back manufacturing jobs: For years this has been put forth as the silver bullet that would reverse the decline in U.S. living standards and put the economy back on a fast track. The only problem...
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Defending Disclosure
In 2012 proponents of financial deregulation managed to generate bipartisan support for a dubious piece of legislation that became the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. Among the provisions...
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Putting Apple in Its Place
Apple’s indignant response to the European Commission tax ruling has nothing to do with an inability to pay. The company’s cash pile of more than $200 billion could cover the assessment several times...
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Is Foxconn a Con?
It’s common for governors to stage publicity events to announce major job-creating investments in their state. This allows them to take implicit credit for a project that was probably helped along with...
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Should Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Rebuilding the Gulf Coast’s Petrochemical...
Much of the Gulf region remains flooded, people are still being rescued, and the full magnitude of the damage is not yet known. But soon the center of attention will be the rebuilding effort and how to...
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A Major Rebuke to Corporate Arrogance
New York City’s progressive elected officials, unions and community activists have just delivered what may be the most remarkable rebuke to corporate influence ever seen in the United States. In...
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