Writings by Topic: Taxes
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Publication |
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| So many column ideas, so little time |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2025 |
| Politics doesn't belong in the pulpit. Neither does the IRS. |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2025 |
| An ugly tax in a 'beautiful' bill |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2025 |
| The growing appeal of the 'Live Free or Die' state |
Arguable |
January 7, 2025 |
| 'Getting shot hurts' |
Arguable |
July 16, 2024 |
| What a nutty lawsuit |
Arguable |
June 25, 2024 |
| Happy about your IRS refund? Don't be. |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2024 |
| The Boston Tea Party was a crime |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2023 |
| Jeff Bezos moves to Florida, leaving Washington — and its rising tax burden — behind |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2023 |
| Ayotte isn't wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2023 |
| The Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" |
Arguable |
July 11, 2023 |
| As 'Taxachusetts' returns, residents are fleeing |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 2023 |
| When my Barbie column got spiked |
Arguable |
May 2, 2023 |
| RIP, CLT |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2022 |
| The taming of income inequality |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2022 |
| What the Yes on Question 1 and No on Question 4 campaigns have in common |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2022 |
| Beware: A more aggressive IRS is on the way |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2022 |
| Millionaires tax is unwise and unworthy |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2022 |
| It isn't tax cuts that are driving federal deficits |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2021 |
| Beacon Hill, hoarding billions in surplus dollars, won't give taxpayers a break |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2021 |
| A 'millionaires tax' is still a terrible idea |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2021 |
| Why New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2021 |
| Were California voters confused? |
Arguable |
November 9, 2020 |
| Beacon Hill to riders and drivers: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2020 |
| Actually, class warriors, skyrocketing inequality may be a myth |
The Boston Globe |
December 15, 2019 |
| To soak the rich, keep tax rates low |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2019 |
| The cynical 'millionaires tax' didn't fool the SJC |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2018 |
| The misleading case for a millionaires' surtax |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2018 |
| The Tea Party, RIP |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 2018 |
| In an age of e-commerce, the 'Quill rule' is more vital than ever |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2018 |
| That GOP 'tax scam' is putting money in millions of workers' pockets |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2018 |
| If the SJC sticks to precedent, the 'millionaire tax' is going nowhere |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2017 |
| Scrap the Obamacare mandate |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 2017 |
| Tolls on the highways? Repeal the gas tax first |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2017 |
| Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2017 |
| An 80% tax surcharge on millionaires? Don't fall for it, voters |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2017 |
| Is that sermon political? |
The Boston Globe |
February 5, 2017 |
| The happiest of happy warriors |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2016 |
| Houses of worship are more than pews and prayerbooks |
The Boston Globe |
April 5, 2016 |
| GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2016 |
| The return of the grad-tax hustle |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2015 |
| Free Roxbury with free enterprise |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2015 |
| How about a year-round tax holiday? |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2014 |
| No, inverters aren't 'deserters' |
The Boston Globe |
July 23, 2014 |
| Tax the roads, not the fuel |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2014 |
| Pfizer and the flight from punitive taxes |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 2014 |
| The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2013 |
| An invitation from the Sunshine State |
The Boston Globe |
August 18, 2013 |
| There's nothing fair about the Marketplace Fairness Act |
The Boston Globe |
April 24, 2013 |
| A guaranteed flop |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2013 |
| Powerball's other big winner: the taxman |
The Boston Globe |
December 9, 2012 |
| The rich pay their fair share in taxes — and then some |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 2012 |
| Facebook's expatriate and the Senate's demagogues |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 2012 |
| What Brown's and Warren's tax returns really show |
The Boston Globe |
May 2, 2012 |
| An uncivil income tax system |
The Boston Globe |
April 4, 2012 |
| Cain wasn't ready with a '9-9-9' defense |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 2011 |
| Professor Warren's ire |
The Boston Globe |
September 28, 2011 |
| The Sage of Omaha speaks, but his actions speak louder |
The Boston Globe |
August 24, 2011 |
| The tax break game |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2011 |
| There's no fairness in taxing e-sales |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2011 |
| Why do the liberals rage? |
The Boston Globe |
December 12, 2010 |
| Yes on 3: Four reasons to roll back the sales tax |
The Boston Globe |
October 24, 2010 |
| Keelhauling Kerry |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2010 |
| Fouled by the taxman |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2010 |
| Let's keep the death tax dead |
The Boston Globe |
January 3, 2010 |
| CLT's last hurrah? |
The Boston Globe |
October 25, 2009 |
| Mandatory insurance: Yes, it's a tax |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 2009 |
| On soaking the rich |
The Boston Globe |
September 2, 2009 |
| 'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' |
The Boston Globe |
August 30, 2009 |
| Better than a bailout |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2008 |
| It's time for a 'blunt budget ax' |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2008 |
| Seeing through Obamanomics |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2008 |
| No profits, no oil |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2008 |
| A resolution: Abolish the income tax |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2007 |
| De-link health care from employment |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 2005 |
| Making the case for Question 1 |
The Boston Globe |
October 27, 2002 |
| Rolling out the 'Finneran gambit' |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 2002 |
| Swift shows true grit when it comes to taxes |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2002 |
| Hands off the tax cut |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2002 |
| As always, Mr. Tax-and-Spend |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2002 |
| Why the Community Preservation Act is a bad idea |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2001 |
| Could Massachusetts survive without an income tax? Of course! |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2001 |
| Tax internet sales? No way! |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2001 |
| Kennedy vs. Kennedy |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2001 |
| Against the tax cut? Give it back. |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2000 |
| The cruelties of the estate tax |
The Boston Globe |
June 15, 2000 |
| John McCain: How straight a shooter? |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2000 |
| Democratic demagoguery poisons the tax cut debate |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 1999 |
| Give the tobacco windfall back to the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 1998 |
| Antitax group giving up? |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 1998 |
| What would Justice Holmes say about taxes now? |
The Boston Globe |
April 9, 1998 |
| Speaker Finneran to Massachusetts taxpayers: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
January 15, 1998 |
| Bush laid the ground for budget deal? Nonsense |
The Boston Globe |
August 12, 1997 |
| GOP pays the price for its tax deal with Clinton |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 1997 |
| Raises for Finneran's pals, but no relief for taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 1997 |
| The tyranny of the IRS |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 1997 |
| Tax relief is indispensable. Newt Gingrich isn't |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 1997 |
| Menino's abandoned tax-cut brainstorm |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 1997 |
| Bob Dole? A tax cutter? |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 1996 |
| Who really drove up the price of gasoline? |
The Boston Globe |
May 7, 1996 |
| Flat tax is the fairest of them all |
The Boston Globe |
February 8, 1996 |
| The power of a 'compassion tax credit' |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 1995 |
| As taxes have climbed, families have paid the price |
The Boston Globe |
October 17, 1995 |
| Profiles in arrogance and failure, not courage |
The Boston Globe |
May 18, 1995 |
| Tax code tyranny |
The Boston Globe |
April 18, 1995 |
| Pro-grad-tax crowd play a cynical, greedy game |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 1994 |
| Racism is now the exception |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 1994 |
| In Brookline, a gang that can't count straight |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 1994 |
| When taxes come close to legalized theft |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 1994 |
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