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

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  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 ...
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• Looking for any excuse to justify a tax cut.....

  
  ataxingmatter — Authority: 120
  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 ...
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• Round Three Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credits

  
  Cuyahoga County Planning Commission Weblog — Authority: 479
  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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• Botax Protest in Times Square

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  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 [...]
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• Chinese Technology Millennium Decade Quiz

  
  ChinaTechNews.com — Authority: 464
  Can you believe its already been 10 years!? ChinaTechNews.com, and its previous incarnations of China [...]
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• A Bonus Tax in America?

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  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 ...
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• Tax Cuts Better for Economy than Stimulus Spending, Economists Say

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  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 ...
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• The Federal Bureaucracy-Plutocracy

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 619
  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 ...
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• Christmas Comes Early for the IRS

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  With the Houses clearance of the $447 billion omnibus spending bill on Thursday and the Senate expected to pass the same legislation this weekend, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is set to finally get that substantial boost in funding this year. During appropriation mark-ups earlier this year, Congress allocated ...
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• A modest movement toward fiscal responsibility in the Senate?

  
  Rossputin.com Rational Thinking About Our World — Authority: 474
  I don’t frequently congratulate Democrat Senator Mark Udall, but his annoucement on Wednesday that he is “cosponsoring legislation to create a special commission to find ways to bring down the nation’s debt” as well as working to implement a presidential line-item veto are welcome news. Udall also said he ...
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• Anti-Tax Groups Oppose VAT

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 434
  TaxNews.Com reports that a coalition of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) Foundation and twenty-one taxpayer groups has sent a letter of warning to President Obama, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and top Congressional leaders about the fiscal and economic risks of a value-added tax (VAT):The ...
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• Foundation Fallacies

  
  PPS Equity — Authority: 454
  Discussion on the recent article PPS and the philanthro-capitalists touched on the inequities engendered by local school foundations. That discussion raised a couple common misconceptions about direct funding of schools, which I’d like to dispel. 1. “…my guess is that the [Title 1 funds] lower income ...
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• The Messiah punts on jobs (or, who would turn down $100 billion a month for life?)

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 128
  As we expected, the Obama jobs initiative was nothing more than a PR gimmick designed to position his administration on the “right” side of the unemployment issue.Mark Thoma writes:This proposal is not very specific, and if it makes it through the legislative process it will likely change quite a bit. But as it ...
  6 days ago

• Task Force on Government Performance to Hold Hearing Today

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  The Senate Budget Committee’s recently inaugurated Task Force on Government Performance will hold a hearing this morning on the benefits of the use of technology in providing results in government performance. This will be the second hearing for the task force and it should be a good one. Witnesses at the ...
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• President Obama: What Is A "Capital Gains Tax" On A Small Business?

  
  Politics, Policy, Pathology and Hope WITHIN The Black Community — Authority: 482
  As I was driving on Tuesday I listened to President Obama detail his next round of policy initiatives that were targeted at stimulating job growth.   I was quite stunned when I heard from his mouth the words "Capital Gains Tax Cuts". My first response was "Hey - isnt this a Republican talking point?  They ...
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• What Does a Fiscal Steward Look Like?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 463
  Well, they come in lots of varieties and come from all different parts of the country.  Here’s a neat little video CNN-Money produced out of their tagging along with the Concord Coalition’s “fiscal advisory councils”–whose representatives came to DC earlier this week to take their message (and model good ...
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• Public Option Out?

  
  Real Health Reform — Authority: 114
  The “deal” is made. Or so it seems.  In the kind of back door bargaining that killed health reform in 1992-94 under President Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes he has come up with a compromise that will allow him to to 60 votes on passage of health reform bill in the Senate.  Since both those ...
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• Warp Speed: An Appropriations Update

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  Last night, as expected , Congress took a giant step toward finishing appropriations this year, as a House and Senate conference committee agreed to a $446.8 billion discretionary omnibus, which includes six of the seven remaining appropriations bills. In addition, the House this afternoon passed, by a vote of 241 ...
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• Cartoon for Today, Thursday 10 December

  
  The Inquiring Mind — Authority: 438
  Dave Brown - The Independent - 10 December
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• COP Evaluates TARP, Gives it a Passing Grade

  
  The Fine Print: blog posts from OMBWatch — Authority: 134
  This being December, with school winding down and entering finals period, children everywhere are beginning the biannual tradition of dreading the arrival of their report card. Surprisingly, the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP), the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) oversight group chaired by Prof. Elizabeth ...
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