Obama Tax Cut

Sam Stein

Congress, Norquist Contemplate Payroll Tax Cut That Isn't Paid For

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.07.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As the United States Senate considers yet another variation of the payroll tax cut, there appears to be little common ground over how th...

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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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Obama-GOP Tax Cut Deal Doesn't Mean Future Accords

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders are congratulating themselves for their bipartisan tax-cut compromise, hoping to b...

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Sam Stein

Key Group Signs Off On Obama Tax Cut Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The country's foremost senior-issues advocacy organization on Friday night lent its support to a critical provision of the president's t...

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Democrats Have to Save Obama From Himself

David Latt | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Latt

The Democratic members of Congress have to do something out of character. They have to stand up to their own president. They have to protect the country from the insidious, Machiavellian duplicity of the Republican leadership.

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The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Poorer

William Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Astore

Americans are uncomfortable calling attention to pay discrepancies and exploitation because it smacks of class warfare. Thus they put up and shut up.

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Sam Stein

Rep. Peter Welch Circulates Letter Urging Dems To Submarine 'Fiscally Irresponsible' Tax Cut Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Just minutes after we reported a potential tax cut deal between Republicans and the White House, the first congressional Democrat is out...

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Sam Stein

Obama Tells Dems He'll Oppose Tax Cut Compromise Withtout Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — At a meeting at the White House with Democratic congressional leadership Saturday afternoon, President Obama said he would oppose a...

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Ball In Obama's Court On Bush Tax Cuts

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Will Congress extend the Bush tax cuts into 2011 in the weeks after Tuesday's election or let the automatic increase start cutting ...

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Newsweek Taps Bush Aide For Obama Reporting

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ari Melber

Political journalism is often imaginative, but a Newsweek article about tax cuts by a former aide to George W. Bush verges on delusion.

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Krugman: Obama Relying Too Much On Tax Cuts?

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a blog post, economist Paul Krugman worries that President-elect Barack Obama is relying too much on tax cuts in his stimulus plan in an effort to ...

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Obama Discusses Tax Cut On First Day Back: Wants $500 Tax Cut For Most Workers (SLIDESHOW) (VIDEO)

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down for video WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama declared the national economy was "bad and getting worse" Monday as he began crisis t...

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Obama Eyes $310 Billion Tax Cut

wsj.com | JONATHAN WEISMAN and NAFTALI BENDAVID | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer as much as $310 billion of tax cuts to individuals...

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Obama On McCain Tax Flip Flop: I "Guess That's How" You Got Your "Ticket Punched" To Be Nominee

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to w...

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