True support for equal pay looks like this: support publicly available pay data, end retaliation for discussing pay, close Equal Pay Act loopholes, increase the cost of discrimination for employers, make high quality child care affordable, and support workplace policies like paid family leave and paid sick days.
In his first year, Mr. Romney closed business tax loopholes and increased fees on an array of services, from marriage licenses to home purchases.
Fair trade, green technology, financial re-regulation, health care reform, fair labor practices, closing of tax loopholes and increased investments in education will all make a difference, can they be done.
David Barboza reports that "government scrutiny of the loophole was increasing".
Congressional tax experts estimated yesterday that closing the Bermuda loophole would increase federal corporate income tax revenues by $6.3 billion over 10 years.
Legal analysts scrambled to explain that investments in China's Internet industry, among others, had hidden risks, and that government scrutiny of the loophole was increasing.
And in the Senate, which had its own Democratic push to demand votes on gun control last week, Chris Murphy's attempt to close the "gun loophole" and increase background checks at gun shows and online failed.
Pruitt is currently entangled in several mounting scandals: He used a loophole to increase staff salaries, traveled on first class flights and private jets on the taxpayer dime, and stayed in an energy lobbyist's condo on Capitol Hill for $50 a night, just to name a few.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls welcomed the party leader's comments and vowed to close loopholes, increase transparency and toughen up penalties.
"It's long overdue for Congress to close outrageous corporate tax loopholes, increase tax fairness, and use the revenue to stop irrational sequestration cuts from further damaging national security, education, health care, research and innovation and more," he said on Friday.
