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• Obama to focus on deficit reduction? Now thats funny!

  
  Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World — Authority: 433
  Last Friday, Politico.com reported that President Obama will announce in the upcoming State of the Union speech a new focus on spending discipline and deficit reduction. [Ed: Pause a few seconds here to allow readers to stop laughing.] Even the somewhat left-leaning Politico was repeatedly skeptical in their ...
  5 hours ago

• Tax Policy Blog: Abortion Funding Already in the Tax Code

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 522
  The Hyde Amendment - much talked about of late in connection with healthcare reform - prohibits the use of government funds to fund abortion.Tax Policy Blog’s Gerald Prante poses the following question:If the Hyde/Stupak Amendment, which says that government should not be directly financing abortions or ...
  11 hours ago

• On the “Political Economy” of Fiscal Policy

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  I’m just back from Denver, where in the opening session on “Dealing with the Fiscal Outlook” of the National Tax Association annual conference, I had been tasked with discussing the “political economy” of the problem.  I started by saying I didn’t know where to begin; there’s such a gulf between ...
  1 day ago

• Will Be Playing Catch-Up This Weekend…

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  I’m still in Denver at the National Tax Association conference, but headed out before the big snow comes! I have many things to catch up on here, but no time right now. In the meantime, see if you see the disconnect between this Washington Post column by David Broder on what David Walker complains is missing ...
  2 days ago

• Congress Looks to Insert Itself into the Debt "Problem"

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Ugh oh, a recent article in National Journal (subscription required) quotes several members of Congress, including Senate Budget Chair Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), expressing strong interest in the creation of a bi-partisan debt-reduction commission with binding recommendation powers to ...
  2 days ago

• Forgotten Tax Policy: The AMT

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  As we near the end of the calendar year, a familiar drone has been absent this year in discussions about tax policy - the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Despite early action this year that has put the issue off until 2010, the problems with the AMT that make it such a pain still exist. The Urban-Brookings ...
  2 days ago

• Your patriotic and economic duty: Fire a Democrat

  
  Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World — Authority: 433
  Since before Barack Obama’s election, there’s been an urban legend “letter from the boss” that goes something like this (there are always multiple versions of such things): As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama will be our next President, ...
  3 days ago

• Capital gains taxation and Medicare

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 121
  Ive often lamented the way the capital gains preference works.  First, it distorts taxation by providing a clear preference for capital income over labor income.  The purported rationale for the preference is based in economic theories that, as we have seen repeatedly, assume away most of the real world and satisfy ...
  3 days ago

• MSNBC’s Dubious Insinuation of Job Data Manipulation

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A paragraph in an article written by Mike Stuckey on MSNBC.com insinuates that the White House manipulated the Recovery.gov job count total to match its previous claims of job growth numbers. I cant tell if Stuckey simply has his facts wrong, is intending to mislead to create controversy, or has been misled by an ...
  3 days ago

• Omnibus Appropriations Bill More and More Likely

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  A story in The Hill this morning relays an increasingly likely scenario in Congress: legislators will use an omnibus appropriations bill to finish spending work this year. The article cites the molasses-like speed at which the Senate has worked to pass its remaining appropriations bills. With the second stopgap ...
  3 days ago

• Reid Suggests "Jobs" Bill

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has floated the idea of putting together a new economic stimulus spending/tax cut bill in an effort to slow further deterioration in the jobs market. Roll Call : Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, ...
  3 days ago

• Why Dividends are Taxed at Lower Rates

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 522
  JLP of All Financial Matters tells us why it makes sense that dividends are taxed at lower rates:BG left the following comment on one of my previous posts:“JLP won’t like me saying it, but even the ultra-rich play this game where their “income” (dividends & investments make up the majority of their income) ...
  4 days ago

• Peter Orszag on the Tough Specifics of Deficit Reduction

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  The President’s budget director, Peter Orszag, was on NPR’s Morning Edition on Wednesday morning.  He talked about the really difficult fiscal policy dilemma the federal government faces right now–dealing with both an unusually severe recession and a worsening longer-term budget outlook (emphasis added): ...
  4 days ago

• Obama’s Non- Tax Reform Commission

  
  Roni Deutch: The Tax Lady Blog — Authority: 479
  From TaxVox : In a month, if White House officials are to be believed, the Obama Administration will unveil the tax reform report of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Despite once-high expectations, it is likely to be a waste of everyone’s time. The Board (the PERAB in ...
  4 days ago

• To balance the budget, let’s tax the poor more

  
  One Utah — Authority: 537
  He’s not just a state senator, he’s the president of the Utah Taxpayer’s Association, “your tax watchdog”. His own personal web site says,”Fighting to reduce your taxes, not add more!” (exclamation point is his)But now Sen. Howard Stephenson, taxpaper advocate, is saying we need to increase the tax on ...
  5 days ago

• On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?

  
  Uppity Wisconsin — Authority: 499
  There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were voting for the Party in ...
  6 days ago

• On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?

  
  Uppity Wisconsin — Authority: 499
  There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were voting for the Party in ...
  6 days ago

• On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  fake consultant There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to ...
  6 days ago

• On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were voting for the Party in ...
  6 days ago

• On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment. The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were voting for the Party in ...
  6 days ago

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