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The city of Chicago has lost over half its middle-class residents since 1970, replaced by lower income and poor residents — and some richer ones — as taxes rise, debt grows, and the pension crisis explodes.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing lower-than-expected tax revenues, thanks to unexpectedly low sales tax revenues from legal marijuana, and the first implementation of the new federal cap on state on local tax (SALT) deductions.

Note what Cuomo is not talking about: fixing the problem, which would require lowering his state’s taxes, most especially New York’s obnoxiously high 8.82 percent income tax rate

Democrats looking to score points against President Trump this week focused attention on data from the government that showed refund checks going out to early filers were smaller than they were a year ago.

New Jersey residents could soon see their hard-earned dollars go down the drain if Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy decides to sign recently passed legislation from New Jersey’s legislature allowing for a “rain tax.”

Multinational conglomerate AT&T is continuing to layoff American workers across the United States after raking in billions in additional profits from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg are trashing left-wing policies on taxes and health care. However, Bloomberg embraced the left’s “Green New Deal” on Tuesday

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to the 70% rate on people at the “tippy-tops” as the rich merely paying their “fair share” of the tax burden.

The German government is considering a new “mosque tax” for the German Muslim community to pay for its own mosques rather than rely on foreign funding.

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister Ahmed Hussen told CTVNews that Santa and Mrs. Claus are honorary Canadian citizens, and pay their taxes.

America’s top earners, by a majority, support a plan to raise taxes on themselves in order to help stop illegal immigration to the United States.

The State of California may begin taxing text messages if a new proposal from state regulators is approved.

President Donald Trump’s draft plan to exclude welfare-dependent migrants is justified by data showing that almost two-thirds of households headed by non-citizens use at least one welfare program, says the Center for Immigration Studies.

PARIS (AFP) — French drivers seething over high fuel prices have vowed to snarl traffic across the country Saturday in a widely supported protest that could prove the trickiest so far for President Emmanuel Macron.

Job Creators Network, one of the nation’s largest grassroots pro-jobs organizations, launched an ad online intended to drive how the point that Americans headed to the polls on this midterm Election Day have a clear choice.

Leaders of the “Yes on Prop 6” campaign promised Monday to recall California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for assigning a misleading and deceptive ballot title to Proposition 6, if the repeal effort fails.

Republican governor candidate John Cox and the “Yes on Proposition 6″ gas tax repeal campaign barnstormed on the :Big Yellow Bus” through Silicon Valley on Monday, part of a statewide tour.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow elaborated on President Donald Trump’s call for another round of tax cuts to bolster the economy. Kudlow told “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade they were still in the “planning stage,”

While speaking at a rally on Monday, President Trump stated that a 10% tax cut for middle-income families will be “put in next week.” Trump said, “We’re going to be putting in a 10% tax cut for middle-income families. It’s

Advocates qualified a 2020 ballot measure to erode California’s Proposition 13 protections against unlimited property tax increases by splitting the tax roll to spike business taxes by up to $10.5 billion.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN’s Dana Bash Monday morning in New York that she is advising Democratic candidates for Congress not to mention President Donald Trump in their campaigns.

The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), a super PAC supported by House Republican leadership, is launching a new ad on Friday targeting Democrat Katie Hill for supporting Nancy Pelosi’s proposed tax hikes and higher gas prices.

Orange County Republicans look to stop the Democrats’ “blue wave” to take the U.S. House by stoking anti-tax resentment in what used to be “America’s Most Republican County.”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) stated that investigating President Trump’s and Jared Kushner’s taxes wouldn’t be the top priority of a Democratic Congressional majority and “These political investigations that everybody fixes on,

Hollywood director and former child star Ron Howard thinks federal investigators need to investigate President Donald Trump for tax evasion.

High levels of taxation are throttling families, as new statistics show household disposable income falling fractionally, despite pay levels rising.

Immigration remains the number one issue for Republican and conservative voters for seven consecutive months heading into the 2018 midterm elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron told a woman who was concerned about cuts to her pension that she should follow General Charles de Gaulle’s example and stop complaining.

Wealthy people commonly use family trusts to transfer assets to their children in just the way the New York Times says the Trump family did.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) accidentally called for “lower tax” before catching her misstatement by looking at her script. The slip occurred during her weekly Friday press conference in Washington, DC.

Vice President Mike Pence had a message for former President Barack Obama at the Values Voter Summit Saturday: the American economy is booming because the Trump administration is rolling back Obama administration policies.

The government of South Korea downplayed the high financial cost of diplomacy with North Korea on Wednesday, as opposition lawmakers argue they are spending excessively to appease the communist regime.

Former Goldman Sachs executive Gary Cohn talked the president out of a plan to raise taxes on top earners in exchange for a lower corporate rate.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw some not-so-subtle shade at Amazon and its CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday when he introduced a bill that would allow the government to charge big corporations for the federal welfare programs its low-income workers use.

Self-proclaimed socialist Cynthia Nixon — running for governor in New York state — gave herself a six-figure tax deduction, despite campaigning on a platform to hike the taxes of fellow wealthy New Yorkers.

Speaker Pelosi 2.0, offers a do-nothing, tax-and-spend Congress, whose agenda will be to remove Trump — by impeachment if possible, by election if necessary.