Bush Tax Cuts: Will America Learn From History?
In reality, hardworking, taxpaying citizens are being told to sacrifice more of the public services we depend on so our leaders can shove even larger tax breaks to the wealthy.
In reality, hardworking, taxpaying citizens are being told to sacrifice more of the public services we depend on so our leaders can shove even larger tax breaks to the wealthy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
If you've been following the various polling reports on how the general public feels about the tax-cut package that President Obama brokered and which might, in some form, make it through the legislative process, then you are probably lost and confused. Please fire a flare gun into the air, and we will send rescuers to your area.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The deal that President Barack Obama has cut to extend the Bush-era tax cuts in full has produced a number of bizarre alliances, with fo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, CBS News released a poll finding that 53 percent of adults preferred to extend the Bush-era tax cuts only to those making less than $250,00...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- In a last-ditch effort to persuade the White House to hold its line on the expiring Bush tax cuts, the progressive advocacy group MoveOn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), the Pied Piper of the incoming congressional class of Tea Party pols, said on Sunday that he would be open to a compromise p...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill), who is tasked with counting votes in the Senate, acknowledged the obvious on Sunday: The Democratic party doesn't have th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Former Obama adviser Peter Orszag's inaugural guest column in Monday's New York Times illustrates the extent to which the White House has been able to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Breaking from the president and the majority of her party, Robin Carnahan, the Democratic Senate candidate in Missouri, announced on Thursday that she...
Carl Gibson | Posted 08.08.2011