by Maureen Turner | Dec 16, 2010 | News
While Springfield’s mayor and councilors battled last week over the city’s controversial trash fee [see “Round One to Tosado?”], they were in accord over at least one point: lowering the city’s tax rate. Just not in complete accord. This...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 16, 2010 | News
It’s funny how the staunchest defenders of the free-market economy often seem to understand very little about that economy. If they understood it well, you wouldn’t keep hearing this refrain in the logic of people who oppose tax cuts for the...
by Stephanie Kraft | Dec 16, 2010 | News
No other function of government exposes a nation’s real priorities like taxation. At a time when the issue of tax policy has come to a head, it’s instructive to look back at the history of the income tax in America. The current debate in Congress hinges on...
by Maureen Turner | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Has the city of Springfield finally seen the end of the Great Trash Fee War? Last week, the City Council rejected a proposal by Mayor Domenic Sarno to extend the much-despised residential trash fee, instead supporting a competing proposal, by Council President Jose...
by Tom Sturm | Dec 16, 2010 | News
Publicist Annie Thompson likens him to Cosimo di Medici, the legendary patriarch of the Florentine family revered for its arts patronage, an integral force in the creative and intellectual flowering of the Renaissance. The comparison is not far off the...
