A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. |
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. |
Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act. |
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? |
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? |
Colorado's economy had been growing faster than most other states long before it adopted TABOR. The claim that TABOR explains Colorado's prosperity in the 1990s -- and that other states can boost their economies by adopting TABOR -- isn't based on fact. |
Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay. |
If a state's currently in the toilet, this is going to keep it there. |
In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money. |
It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive. |
Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies. |
Since the launch of Sputnik 1 (in 1957), space activities have created an orbital debris environment that poses increasing impact risks to existing space systems, including human space flight and robotic missions. |
Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work. |
Taxing the incomes of the working-poor families runs counter to the efforts of policymakers across the political spectrum to help families work their way out of poverty. |
The current debris population in low Earth orbit has reached the point where collisions will become the dominant debris-generating mechanism in the future. |