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Obama wants Bush tax cuts to rich to sunset, extend them for most Americans listen

09/08/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bush tax cuts, taxes

In a speech in Cleveland today President Barack Obama asked Congress to let the Bush era tax cuts expire for the richest three percent of Americans but to extend them for people making less than $250,000.

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Crist allows interim property assessments to help homeowners affected by BP disaster listen

07/21/10 Seán Kinane
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Tags: BP, BP oil spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Charlie Crist, taxes

Gov. Charlie Crist has taken a step to reduce property taxes for homeowners in counties affected by the BP oil disaster. In an executive order today, Crist said it would apply to the 26 Florida counties that are currently under a state of emergency, including Pinellas and Hillsborough counties.

"I have not asked BP's permission to dot his. we got it from the Constitution."

Crist says the interim property assessments will help homeowners file claims for economic damages against BP.

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WMNF reports live from Tax Day Tea Party in Tampa listen

04/15/10 Kate Bradshaw & Seán Kinane
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Tags: tea parties, teabaggers, tea party, taxes, War

WMNF's Kate Bradshaw reports live from the Tax Day Tea Party in downtown Tampa.

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Tampa Tea Party draws hundreds listen

04/15/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Politics, taxes, protests

A crowd of about 500 people gathered in downtown Tampa today as part of the nationwide Tax Day Tea Parties protesting government spending, particularly spending plans of President Barack Obama.

The event has received large coverage on conservative media outlets, like talk radio and Fox News. Their presence has become so large that in the past few days, the left leaning cable network MSNBC has held several reports about Fox’s involvement.

Although many in the audience were conservative...

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How the tax system benefits the super rich

01/28/09 Robert Lorei
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Tags: taxes, sports subsidies, tax deferrals, VAT, offshore bank accounts, super rich

Welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity program. I’m Rob Lorei. Our guest today, David Cay Johnston was for 14 years the tax reporter for the New York Times. He has been documenting the ways he says our tax code has been recalibrated to take from the poor, the middle class and even the relatively affluent and given to large corporations and the super rich. He calls it “socialism for the rich.”

In an article entitled Fiscal Therapy in this month’s Mother Jones magazine, he writes how Presiden...

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Florida's budget woes to worsen listen

11/19/08 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: State budget, economy, taxes, polls

Florida’s budget woes are expected to get worse. Later this week, state forecasters are expected to announced that the current budget will fall short by as much as $2 billion.

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, Alex Sink, has said that the state should hold a Special Session to deal with the worsening crises. New House Speaker Ray Sansome says the state can avoid the cost of a special session by tapping state reserves and dedicating the first two weeks of the regular session to finding de...

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Tax law expert says Obama tax plan is sound listen

09/12/08 Seán Kinane
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Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, John McCain, taxes

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is responding to claims by John McCain's camp that Obama’s tax policy will be bad for Americans.

Darryll Jones is a professor of tax law at the Stetson University College of Law. Jones said his analysis of the tax plans of McCain and Obama makes it clear that more people will benefit under an Obama administration.

“It’s just not true that Senator Obama intends to raise taxes for most Americans. You’ve got to make over a quarter of a million dollars...

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Hillsborough commissioners say no to slight tax hike listen

07/17/08 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Hillsborough County Commission, taxes, 2009 budget

Some Hillsborough County Commissioners expressed alarm today that their current budget for the next fiscal year calls for a tax increase. So they vowed to their constituents that would not happen.

Eric Johnson, the management and budget director for the county, said the millage rate is going up slightly because the taxable property values have declined. That means the millage is going up enough to actually lead to a slight tax increase. He said that the Commission would need to cut more...

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Advertisers oppose tax-swap amendment listen

07/10/08 Seán Kinane
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Tags: tax-swap amendment, taxes, 2008 election

Today the Tampa Bay Advertising Federation held a luncheon meeting to discuss the tax-swap amendment that will be on November’s ballot. Amendment 5 calls for a 25 percent reduction in property taxes. But local advertisers are concerned that up to $11 billion in new taxes would have to be raised, hurting their businesses.

If Amendment 5 passes, Floridians will no longer pay the Required Local Effort (RLE) portion of their property tax that goes toward funding schools. But the tax-swap amend...

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Tax Swap amendment on November ballot listen

07/02/08 Seán Kinane
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Tags: tax-swap amendment, TBRC, taxes

In addition to voting for president this November, Floridians will have the opportunity to vote on several proposed amendments to the state’s Constitution.

Amendment 5 is called the “tax-swap” amendment because it would reduce the property taxes of Floridians in favor of increased sales tax and other taxes.

State Sen. Dave Aronberg is a Democrat from Greenacres in southeast Florida who said he opposes Amendment 5.

The tax-swap amendment calls for an elimination of a tax called the R...

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