Better Spending Taxes How Many Should Pay Income Taxes? Should more people pay income taxes? It is widely agreed that the top 1 percent By Scott Burns / January 27, 2013
Better Spending Home Ownership Income & Wealth Taxes Fearless Forecasts for 2013 Spending money gets easier by the minute. Today, thanks to automatic bill pay and other By Scott Burns / December 30, 2012
Income & Wealth Taxes If You Want To Rebuild America, Start With the Tax Code Houston. He’s lanky, white-haired and calm. Listen to him for a few minutes and you By Scott Burns / September 23, 2012
Retirement Social Security Taxes The Little Middle Class Tax That Keeps On Rising Both parties talk about “helping” the middle class. But will they actually do it? Don’t By Scott Burns / August 19, 2012
Retirement Social Security Taxes For the Real Condition of Social Security & Medicare, Turn to Appendix F Can you spell i-c-e-b-e-r-g? Well, we’ve hit one and our ship is taking on water. By Scott Burns / May 6, 2012
Couch Potato Investing Income & Wealth Taxes Will the Real Tax Rate Please Stand Up? Warren Buffett and Mitt Romney have something in common beyond wealth. Both pay federal income By Scott Burns / February 19, 2012
At Large Income & Wealth Taxes How Much Can the 99% Squeeze Out of the 1%? Allow me to introduce some real data into a popular sound bite: the bottom 99 By Scott Burns / October 23, 2011
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Meditation on McDonald’s, Part 2 McDonald’s, April 4th, 10 a.m. It’s the morning lull here. The moms delivered the kids By Scott Burns / April 17, 2011
Income & Wealth Social Security Taxes Front Door and Back Door Tax Increases As emails go, it was unusual. It was from a Republican candidate for the U.S. By Scott Burns / February 13, 2011
Taxes Living with Hauser’s Law Today’s rude question: Is it possible that all the discussion of taxes in Washington is By Scott Burns / January 16, 2011
Retirement Social Security Taxes Future Medicare: Cheap, But Not Available If the reports from the Trustees for Social Security and Medicare are accurate, our collective By Scott Burns / August 15, 2010