Middle Class Tax Cuts

Jennifer Bendery

Nancy Pelosi Defends Reframing Middle Class As People Making Up To $1 Million

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday defended her push to permanently extend "middle class" tax cuts to people maki...

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Tax Break Update -- What Is Happening Today

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 02.19.2012

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Rep. Louise Slaughter

I want to help explain what is happening on the floor of the House of Representatives. We should be voting to extend middle class tax cuts, but through some legislative acrobatics, the Republican Majority has totally prevented this.

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Ryan Grim

Paul Ryan, Herman Cain Push For Tax Hikes On Middle Class

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Sunday that House Republicans would oppose President Barack Obama's payroll tax cuts for both employers ...

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Obama's Tax Cut Deal May A 'Back-Door Stimulus Plan'

nytimes.com | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Obama effectively traded tax cuts for the affluent, which Republicans were demanding, for a second stimulus bill that seemed improbable a few week...

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Tax Cut Compromise Should Boost The Economy, Analysts Say

AP | PAUL WISEMAN and JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The tax deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans essentially gives Americans a pay raise – pumping...

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House Leader: Democrats Will Force Vote On Just Middle Class Tax Cuts

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just...

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Obama Talks Need Of Compromise With GOP

AP | WILL LESTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is appealing to victorious Republicans to go along with his plan to extend tax cuts for the middle class, sa...

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New Tax Cut Package: See The Bill's Biggest Cuts

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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Highlights of the tax package passed by Congress late Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama. It would cost about $858 billion; most provisions, ...

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Republican Split Over Tax Deal Means Democratic Opportunity

The New York Times | SIMON JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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On one hand, there are those like Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee, who are in favor of the tax deal currently on the table. This seems to be where mos...

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The Tax Cut Deal: Remember Give and Take?

Melanie Billings-Yun | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melanie Billings-Yun

"Did Obama blink on tax cuts?" asked the headline in The Washington Post. More than in the answers, I am intrigued by the question. Is governance real...

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Any Payroll Tax Cut Should Be Designed Not to Hurt Lower-Income Workers

Andrew Fieldhouse | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Fieldhouse

While the payroll tax cut comes at a much higher price tag and would thus have a greater net impact on job creation, the cut would actually lower disposable income for all tax filers earning less than $20,000 a year.

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The Daily Szep -- The Rich

Paul Szep | Posted 05.25.2011

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URGENT: Last Chance to Get a Better Tax Cut Deal

Rep. Jay Inslee | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Jay Inslee

This is our best chance to get a better deal for the middle class, the economy, and clean energy since President Obama made this "compromise" with the Republicans -- and we need to jump on it right now.

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Obama's 'North Star' Not Enough by Itself

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey Feldman

What lurks behind Obama's North Star rhetoric is his apparent conviction that only economic improvement, not political battles, are important for gaining back political ground for the Democratic Party.

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Watch the Outfielders in Baseball, Watch the Corporate Lobbyists on Taxes

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

Whereas politicians have a vested interest in making themselves look good, lobbyists jealously represent Big Money, without regard for partisanship or electoral maneuvering.

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Obama's "Tax Holiday": A Poison Pill for Social Security

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard (RJ) Eskow

You know what they always say: Pay now or pay later. Middle-class Americans may pay very dearly for the president's tax deal, and at the stage of life when they can least afford it.

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Lucia Graves

Hoyer Backs GOP 'Ransom' On Tax Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that if Democrats don't pay the Republican ransom on tax cuts, America's middle clas...

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Tax 'Deal' Makes It Official: America Has Gone Batshit Crazy

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

A Democratic president who won on a promise to rescind the Bush tax cuts is now pushing to extend them. This, despite the fact that to stop them, all Democrats had to do was pass nothing.

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Proposed Tax Deal Shows Sharp Contrast in Republican and Democratic Priorities

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Creamer

Let's be clear. The Republican Party has only one core value: massive economic benefits for the wealthiest Americans. And they'll sacrifice the welfare of everyone else who is gullible enough to vote for them in order to get it.

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Woman Up, Obama & Democrats: Grow a Pair... of Ovaries! (VIDEO)

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert S. McElvaine

In this video I, as one of Barack Obama's earliest supporters, lecture him and Senate Democrats on just how pathetic their willingness to "compromise"...

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Frank Rich: Obama, The GOP, And A Case Of Stockholm Syndrome

The New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 05.25.2011

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THOSE desperate to decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult an article titled "Understanding Stockholm Syndrome" in the onli...

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Defining Class in America: Has the Economic Crisis Brought Us Closer Together?

Curtis Valentine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Curtis Valentine

Amid all the discussion about "Middle Class Tax Cuts" and the "War on the Middle Class," there has been little attention paid to the puzzling fact that Americans still do not have a hard and fast definition for middle class.

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TAX CUT MYTHS: Fact Checking The Showdown In Congress

AP | BERNARD CONDON | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — As debate rages on extending tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, politicians are making misleading statements about who mi...

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Make Them Filibuster

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert S. McElvaine

I want to scream. What in the hell is wrong with the Democrats? The House has done as it should and passed the extension of the tax cut for the midd...

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House Passes Tax Cuts For Middle Class

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has passed a bill to extend middle-class tax cuts while letting those for the wealthy expire, even as talks continue on e...

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