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Taxes are on the agenda, but nobody’s talking about them (McClatchy Newspapers)
enUws —
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McClatchy Newspapers – WASHINGTON — In the back of every Washington politician’s mind is this sobering fact: Unless Congress acts, the temporary tax… The rest is here: (McClatchy Newspapers)"> (McClatchy Newspapers)">Taxes are on the agenda, but nobody’s talking about them (McClatchy ...1 day ago -
Campaign 2010: The Path to the Majority
Let Freedom Ring —
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Wednesday afternoon, I included a quote from DSCC spokesman Eric Schultz in one of my posts. Here’s Schultz’s quote on what the Democrats’ campaign strategy should be: “Republicans on the ballot next November who opposed the bill will be in the precarious position of telling voters they plan to ...3 days ago -
Experts devise bang-up cracker formula
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...3 days ago -
Pair held over $4m card skimming scam
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...5 days ago -
Crew finds Centaur shipwreck
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 137
A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...1 week ago -
If You’re Rich, 2010 Will Be a Great Year to Die
Understanding Government —
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So explains the New York Times’ Carl Hulse : the estate tax on assets passed on to heirs will expire completely starting Jan. 1. Then , it will return at a 55 percent rate in 2011 for those with more than one million worth of assets. The estate or “death tax,” as its Republican detractors call it, is ...1 week ago -
The Current Debt Is Inherited, But Future Deficits Are Chosen
EconomistMom.com —
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued this report this week, which claims that “President Obama Largely Inherited Today’s Huge Deficits.” The headline chart is shown above, which proves the point that President Bush’s deficit financed tax cuts and deficit-financed wars account for most of the ...1 week ago -
Is the Senate Going to Allow the Estate Tax to Die?
The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Deconstructing the Deficit
The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch —
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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 ...1 week ago -
About that Obama deficit...
swimming freestyle —
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Several months ago, The Center for American Progress put together an analysis of the prime contributors to the current federal budget deficit. The long and short of it; nearly all the deficit is a result of Bush Administration policies and the resulting economic downturn. Via Kevin Drum comes this more recent ...1 week ago -
If I thought this “health care reform” was going to fix anything, I would say that it is needed.
InvestmentWatch —
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The problem is it fixes NOTHING, taxes EVERYTHING and will shoot the cost of insurance (let alone service) through the roof. My business has had our rates increased over 50% in two years, with NO claims for anything other than physicals. From the parts I have read of this legislation, our costs will go UP an ...1 week ago -
Maver-ick-ick-ick
HYSTERICAL RAISINS —
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From John Heilemann at New York Magazine : Is McCain attacking Obama and toeing the GOP line out of principle? Or for revenge against the man who beat him? The Senate debate over health-care reform had just begun when John McCain took to the well of the upper chamber and offered his party’s first proposed ...1 week ago -
What Were Reading...
Economix —
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Menu mind games and other economic coverage from around the Web.1 week ago -
A Taxing Challenge
The Washington Independent —
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Former President George W. Bush (Gamma/Eyedea/ZUMA Press) A decade’s worth of cuts in federal aid combined with states moving to copy Bush administration tax cuts have led to states filling revenue shortfalls with regressive tax policies that disproportionately affect the poorest Americans. According to “Who ...1 week ago -
Guns and butter: Can the U.S. have both at the same time?
BloggingStocks —
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Filed under: Economic data , Politics In the 1960s, President Lyndon Johnsons economic/social policy, the Great Society, came up against a counterforce and competing claim few in public policy circles at that time had expected: Lyndon Johnson himself. Johnson, in a decision that would alter U.S. society and ...1 week ago -
‘That Dumb Cowboy Bush’
The Washington Independent Blog —
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Matthew Yglesias, making another version of his argument that the multiple veto points in the legislative branch overly empower the minority and make America “ungovernable,” drew a quip from Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds : “Funny, that dumb cowboy Bush seemed to get a lot done with fewer votes in ...1 week ago -
Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
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A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...1 week ago -
SWOT: Emerging Markets
GreenLightAdvisor Views —
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Emerging Markets Strengths China’s passenger car sales rose to 1.04 million units in November, a 98 percent surge from a year earlier and a fifth consecutive month with more than 50 percent growth. Thanks to sales tax cuts and 10 billion yuan of government subsidies, total vehicle sales in China reached 12.2 ...1 week ago -
Tax Cuts Better for Economy than Stimulus Spending, Economists Say
The Tax Lawyer's Blog —
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
Tax Cuts are More Effective than Government Spending
Incentives Matter —
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According to this NYT article by Mankiw , were the government really serious about using fiscal policy to stimulate the economy, then it would be using tax cuts instead of increased government spending as a tool. Heres the evidence: One piece of evidence comes from Christina D. Romer , the chairwoman of the ...2 weeks ago
