Pluralistic: Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things (03 June 2023)

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Washington State's capital gains tax proves we can have nice things: We just need to tax the rich.
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Pluralistic: The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer) (17 May 2023)

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The IRS will do your taxes for you (if that's what you prefer): After years of expensively purchased delay, Turbotax and its fellow tax-profiteers are losing the fight to make you pay them to tell the government what it already knows.
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Pluralistic: Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU (20 Feb 2023)

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Turbotax is blitzing Congress for the right to tax YOU: Why do Americans have to pay Intuit to tell the IRS things it already knows?
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Pluralistic: 25 Aug 2021

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Big Box stores' other shoe drops: Lowe's is a parasite that is killing its host.
Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans": When a secretive autocrat has no more secrets.
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Pluralistic: 11 Aug 2021

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Canada's got the world's worst internet ideas: The Canada Variant is the most virulent "online harms" rule.
IRS leaks reveal billions reaped through ultra-wealthy lobbying on the tax bill: A cast of dozens.
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Pluralistic: 17 Jun 2021

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Tali Farhadian Weinstein paid virtually no tax on millions and millions: And she wants to be the Manhattan DA and go after Trump's tax-dodging.
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