Nowhere is President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda more in conflict than in his triple aim of funding a major infrastructure initiative, attacking climate change, and never raising taxes on households making less than $400,000. He has a terrific opportunity to achieve the first two promises, but he cannot if he sticks to that no new
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Will New York City ever recover from the pandemic? This segment of What’s Ahead points out that the rot eating away at the Big Apple was underway before Covid-19 hit. People and enterprises were already pulling up stakes because of a serious decline in the quality of life: • Rising crime, a result of an emasculated
The decision by the IRS to extend the initial filing due date of individual tax returns to May 17 was mostly a good thing. Maybe not as good a thing as the extension to July 15 in 2020, but it was something. There was a wrinkle though. Unlike in 2020 the due date of first quarter estimated tax
With a little over nine months left in his second (and last) term, New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio has appointed a Racial Justice Commission “tasked with targeting and dismantling structural and institutional racism across the City.” How much can New York—or any city on its own—do about this deeply embedded problem? There’s no question that cities and the
Despite the narrowest of margins in both houses of Congress, Democrats want to enact a sweeping, radical agenda that would remake the country. That’s why they want to abolish the filibuster. Instead of having to attract 60 votes to pass a measure in the Senate, Democrats would only need 51. Properly employed, the filibuster insures