Taxes
9/19/2011 1:06 PM ET
Plus, great minds think alike? Two lead stories on consecutive days from different reporters contain an identical paragraph: "The Obama proposal has little chance of becoming law unless Republican ...
9/13/2011 1:11 PM ET
Over the sanctimonious headline "The Enlightened Want to Be Taxed," Times editors threaten: "But altruism does not fully explain why members of the global elite are suddenly keen to prevent the ...
9/7/2011 9:45 PM ET
President and media stuck on repeat, but ABC, CBS, NBC won't admit it; argue for more money to fix roads, bridges.
8/31/2011 1:03 PM ET
Reporter Julia Werdigier suggests higher taxes would have stopped the riots in Europe. "Some analysts said the calls for greater sacrifice from Europe's wealthy might have sprung from growing ...
8/26/2011 2:24 PM ET
The answer is simple: He's the kind of businessmen that liberals like - who don't think they are paying enough money in taxes.
8/19/2011 3:37 PM ET
Michael Shear faulted moderate Republican candidate Jon Huntsman for not sufficiently "standing apart from the pack" of conservative presidential candidates by calling for higher taxes - or in ...
8/17/2011 1:11 PM ET
Wishful thinking by reporter David Kocieniewski: "But with the prospect of severe spending cuts and another round of bitter deficit negotiations in Washington, proposals like [Warren] Buffett's ...
8/2/2011 5:39 PM ET
New York Times food writer and junk food sin-tax advocate Mark Bittman took to the August 2 edition of MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan show as part of his promotional tour for Bad Food? Tax It. He found a ...
7/27/2011 2:27 PM ET
David Leonhardt pens his last economics column before becoming Washington bureau chief, and encapsulates his liberal conventional wisdom: "We know that the federal government has promised more ...
7/22/2011 12:56 PM ET
Leonhardt, the Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed the big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three months ago ...
