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• Is the Senate Going to Allow the Estate Tax to Die?

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  According to a Wall Street Journal article published this morning, efforts to pass some sort of estate tax extension in the upper chamber broke down late Wednesday afternoon. It seems the Democratic caucus cant agree on whether to permanently or temporarily extend 2009 estate tax levels. Though legislators are ...
  13 hours ago

• Deconstructing the Deficit

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  When discussing the federal budget deficit, I should be clear that reducing it right now is absolutely the wrong policy to pursue. It will likely strangle the meager recovery thats underway, and attention should primarily be focused on reducing the growing cost of health care. Having said all that, if deficit ...
  19 hours ago

• What We Need

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 127
  On Wednesday, December 16, it was hard to see that there was anything else to talk about but Joe Lieberman and how he had decided the way healthcare should be reconfigured in America, as he had the one and only mother of all swing votes, and a giant chip on his shoulder and the mother of all grudges against anyone who ...
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• Final Defense Bill Includes Franken Anti-Rape Amendment

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  Back in October, I wrote about Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and his praise-worthy amendment to the FY 2010 Defense appropriations bill that would bar the government from contracting with companies who prevent their employees from bringing workplace sexual assault cases to court. The amendment passed easily 68 to 30 – ...
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• More Benefits for the TARPd

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  Well, this is galling . The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an exception to long-standing tax rules for the benefit of Citigroup and a few other companies partially owned by the government. As a result, Citigroup will be allowed to retain billions of dollars worth of tax breaks that otherwise would decline ...
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• Another $50 Billion Stimulus Rush?

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 613
  Fresh from his recent White House-sponsored jobs summit, President Obama is pushing a new economic stimulus plan intended to soften the pain of a 26-year-high unemployment rate that sees one in ten Americans out of work. Against all expectations, $200 billion of the money originally appropriated by Congress for ...
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• Health Insurance: ECONOMIC NECESSITY, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 115
  In our section ‘details on the plan’ we have offered, unconventional, yet we think innovative solutions to address the conundrum of having business in the business of providing health insurance coverage (which for 99% of businesses, is not their business).  We have argued from day one that the  post-WWII model ...
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• Democrats scale back: Insufficient support for public-option, Medicare expansion

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 115
  Here’s the scoop – Medicare pays so poorly that doctors are constantly evaluating their desire to even participate in the plan at all.  Therefore it is no surprise that the AMA, which has supported health reform efforts, suggested it will withdraw or modify its support if there is an expansion of Medicare. ...
  2 days ago

• House to Finish up Appropriations, Push Other Fiscal Business to Next Year

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 135
  On Wednesday, the House is likely to finish appropriations for the fiscal year with a vote on the last spending measure, Defense. The lower chamber will also vote to extend the debt limit temporarily, a move that will put the thorny political issue off until 2010. The FY 2010 Defense appropriations measure will ...
  2 days ago

• U.S. Government Should Take a Lesson from Dubai: Leave Venture Capital to Capitalists

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 613
  The U.S. government is becoming Daddy Warbucks to an increasing number of firms. According to the Wall Street Journal : … the government has become the nation’s biggest mortgage lender, guaranteed nearly $3 trillion in money-market mutual-fund assets, commandeered and restructured two car companies, taken ...
  2 days ago

• An interview with Rep. Paul Ryan

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 699
  I recently had the chance to sit down and chat with Rep. Paul Ryan , a Wisconsin Republican and the ranking GOPer on the House Budget Committee. Ryan’s a rising Republican star (he’ll be just 40 next month), a guy some folks were pushing to be John McCain’s running mate in 2008.  If there’s a young Jack Kemp ...
  2 days ago

• Looking for any excuse to justify a tax cut.....

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 119
  As anyone who has read much of my blog knows, I find it frustrating that many on the right wing of the Democratic party (and almost all of the Republican Party) recommend tax cuts like the elixirs hawked in small towns during the Gold Rush--the remedy for all fiscal ills.  If there is a boom and a surplus, the right ...
  3 days ago

• Round Three Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 480
  The Ohio Department of Development awarded $23.7 million in Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits to 12 projects across the state. The only recipient in Cuyahoga County was the Cowell & Hubbard Building in downtown Cleveland. The Playhouse Square Foundation purchased the building in 2007.
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• Peter Orszag vs. the WSJ

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 699
  OMB director Orszag didn’t much like a WSJ editorial about the lack of  fiscal prudence of ObamaCare. And he said so on his blog . I think Orszag makes a few reasonable points, like not counting on cost savings from the pilot programs.  But he side-stepped that fact that America will be spending more on ...
  3 days ago

• Botax Protest in Times Square

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 435
  The New York Daily News reports on the Botax protests held Sunday in Times Square:Don’t tax our ta tas!That was the word Sunday from New York women outraged over a Washington proposal to add a 5% tax on all elective cosmetic surgery – everything from boob jobs to Botox to face-lifts.“It is unfair. A lot [...]
  3 days ago

• Chinese Technology Millennium Decade Quiz

  
  ChinaTechNews.com — Authority: 468
  Can you believe its already been 10 years!? ChinaTechNews.com, and its previous incarnations of China [...]
  4 days ago

• A Bonus Tax in America?

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 435
  Britain and France seem to have gone a tad giddy with the populist idea of taxing the bonuses of bank executives.Here’s the Huffington Post:British bankers are going bonkers after the UK government announced that it wouldn’t stand idly by as they showered themselves with obscene bonuses made possible by last ...
  4 days ago

• Tax Cuts Better for Economy than Stimulus Spending, Economists Say

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 435
  For decades fiscal conservatives have been saying that high tax rates cause the economy to contract. When they haven’t been laughed at by the left they’ve been called greedy and heartless. Now it looks like even the left is beginning to think that across-the-board tax cuts are good for the economy and government ...
  5 days ago

• The Federal Bureaucracy-Plutocracy

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 613
  According to an analysis of federal payroll data by USA Today , the federal bureaucracy has flourished during the current recession. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months—and that’s before overtime pay and ...
  5 days ago

• Cutting Health Budget NOT Same as Cutting Costs

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 115
  It is easy to cut budgets.  Not easy to cut real costs. Congress is looking for ways to pay for its expansion of medical coverage for the uninsured and underinsured. Their assumption is that most of those who are uninsured could not afford any premium payments for medical services.  They plan to pay for their plan ...
  5 days ago

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