Barack Obama Taxes

Will Smith: Tax Me More!

AP | RYAN PEARSON | Posted 05.08.2012

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LOS ANGELES — One of Hollywood's biggest and best-paid stars is supporting President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on the country's top e...

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Why a Fair Economy Is Not Incompatible With Growth But Essential to It

Robert Reich | Posted 04.16.2012

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What we should have learned over the last half century is that growth doesn't trickle down from the top. It percolates upward from working people who are adequately educated, healthy, sufficiently rewarded, and who feel they have a fair chance to make it in America.

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Who He's Really Going After

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itse...

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Fiscal Affairs: The Buffett Rule Is a Good Idea

Simon Johnson | Posted 04.16.2012

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The Buffett Rule is a tiny tax, of little consequence to the people who would pay it or to the country as a whole. The idea that $30 billion of additional revenue would tip the balance in any way is simply ludicrous. But this is precisely what gives the Buffett Rule its powerful symbolism.

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RNC Chairman: Buffett Rule A 'Shiny Object'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.15.2012

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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was dismissive Sunday of the Buffett Rule, calling it little more than a "shiny object" the pres...

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Obamas Claim Tax Break That Most Helps The Rich

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 04.14.2012

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President Barack Obama didn't benefit last year from the huge break in the tax code that allows his presumptive rival, Mitt Romney, to pay taxes at a ...

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Tiny Little Hope for Tax Reform

David Miller | Posted 04.10.2012

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Surprisingly, the president and his Republican counterparts are all in the same room and often on the very same page on the fundamental elements of tax reform.

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Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012

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It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...

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Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012

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Nobody likes tax time. But for many companies, that annual burden is getting a lot lighter. Corporations are enjoying not only record profits, but ...

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Warren Buffett: High Corporate Taxes Are An American 'Myth'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.27.2012

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Corporations, like the rich, aren't paying their fair share in taxes, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday. Even while enjoying...

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Who Loses Big In Obama's Tax Plan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Every one of the dozens of corporate tax loopholes and subsidies that President Barack Obama announced this week he'd like to expunge ha...

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Obama, Romney Propose Surprisingly Similar Corporate Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have begun a new form of competition: proposing corporate tax cut plans that they claim, wrongly,...

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The Buffett Romney Rule

Andrew Fieldhouse | Posted 04.01.2012

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The most fitting way to fulfill the Romney Rule would be once again equalizing the tax treatment of capital income and work income, and correspondingly physical capital and human capital.

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Class Illusions Revisited

Paul Stoller | Posted 03.27.2012

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We like the myth of a classless society because it corresponds nicely to the stories we like to tell ourselves about the United States and the American Dream. For these reasons, the GOP spin on social divisiveness gets some traction in the public.

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On Social Sacrifice

David Theo Goldberg | Posted 12.12.2011

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In asking the rich to pay more the Wall Street Occupiers are not asking that the contribution should employ any one of them. They are just asking that it improve the chances of everyone to be employed.

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A President We Can Believe In?

| Dylan Slinger and Josh Roberts | Posted 11.29.2011

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HuffPost Pro/Con is a bi-weekly column featuring high school debaters from The National Forensic League sounding off on hot-button issues. PRO ...

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Who Is Warren Buffett's Secretary?

Slate Magazine | Annie Lowrey | Posted 11.20.2011

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For nearly two decades, Debbie Bosanek has fielded press calls, investor queries, and sundry other requests for her boss, billionaire investor Warren ...

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GOP Congressman Says He Makes Just $400,000, Can't Afford Tax Hike

Posted 11.19.2011

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Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) appeared on MSNBC Monday morning to express opposition to President Barack Obama's deficit reduction plan, which includes a ...

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Corporate Jets, Airline Passengers Face Higher Fees In Obama Debt Reduction Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama's deficit reduction plan calls for raising fees on corporate jets and airline passengers as part of $1.5 trillion in new...

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Obama Unveils Deficit Reduction Plan, 'Buffett Rule' Tax On Millionaires

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON — Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americ...

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U.S. Corporations Fight Congress, White House Over Tax Havens

Posted 11.14.2011

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By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Large U.S. corporations are pressuring Congress and the White House to exempt overseas corporate pro...

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Time for the U.S. to Wake up Before It's too Late

Marty Robins | Posted 09.13.2011

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A few months ago I might have started this column with something like 'I don't mean to sound like an alarmist...' but now I think it's time to be an a...

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Obama Picks Fight With Republicans Over Taxes

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 08.31.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is renewing an old fight with the business community by insisting that $400 billion in tax increases be part...

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President & First Lady Paid $453,770 Taxes On $1.7 Million Income

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 06.18.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is making less money than he used to, though it's still a lot: He and wife Michelle reported income of $1.73...

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Obama May Push To Overhaul Income-Tax Code Next Year

nytimes.com | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama is considering whether to push early next year for an overhaul of the income tax code to lower rates and raise revenues ...

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