Two of America’s three richest men want their taxes increased. Or do they? “I think our system can be a lot more progressive (that is richer people paying a higher share),” Bill Gates wrote Monday on Reddit. “A key element…
Amazon does not pay the government taxes. The government pays Amazon taxes. Some residents of the chutzpah capital of the world predictably rebel against this arrangement. Just call them modern-day tax resisters. Hopefully, Jeff Bezos’s Internal Revenue Service audits them…
Donald Trump, weeks after presiding over the longest government shutdown in American history, boasts his highest approval ratings since his administration’s infancy. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, after refusing to budge in negotiations with the president, sees a 75-12…
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that now allows non-union public workers to opt out of paying union “fair-share” fees has Big Labor in a tizzy, but this commonsense free-speech decision has been long overdue. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called the…
For the people in the pro-Trump camp, there are any number of things to be happy about at this point. We have a president who understands that military might and diplomacy go hand-in-hand. He’s packing the appellate courts with conservative…
Happy Small Business Week, an annual celebration by the Small Business Administration of “America’s 30 million small businesses.” Small businesses, the backbone of the U.S. economy, employed 48 percent of all American workers in 2016, and were deemed “the engine of the American Dream” by President…
In a unanimous voice vote Tuesday, the Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to head the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command. While not much is known about Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone’s stance on some of the NSA’s…
Eye drop users everywhere have had it happen. Tilt your head back, drip a drop in your eye, and part of that drop always seems to dribble down your cheek. But, what most people see as an annoyance, some prescription…
Sitting at a booth at Pizza King Restaurant on Stein Highway, Seaford Mayor David Genshaw stares at his coffee while stirring it. It has only been a short period of time since the big vote and another reason pops into…
