Obama Tax Cuts

Washington Post Slams Nancy Pelosi

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 05.24.2012

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The Washington Post editorial board on Wednesday night slammed House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for pushing to permanently extend "middle...

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LISTEN: Rush Limbaugh Accuses Bill Clinton Of 'Undercutting Obama'

Posted 05.17.2012

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Rush Limbaugh accused Bill Clinton of "undercutting" President Obama for comments he recently made about taxing the wealthy to fix the economy. Cl...

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Obama's Lower Taxes Slow The Economy, CBO Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans have pounced on a Congressional Budget Office report Friday that says President Barack Obama's budget would add to deficits ...

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White House Threatens Veto Of Tax Cut For The 'Fortunate'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the second major shot in Washington's ideological battle over taxes this week, the White House on Tuesday slammed a small-business ta...

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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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Payroll Tax Cut Extension: Just Another Quick Fix

Christopher Bergin | Posted 05.26.2012

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Politicians are counting on the fact that the American public wants instant gratification and is more concerned about today than the potential long-term solvency of Social Security or the bill we are leaving our children and grandchildren to pay.

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A Better Outlook Beckons

Frank A. Weil | Posted 05.16.2012

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When faced with bad alternatives, as well as responsibility for their consequences, most politicians ultimately compromise, as the Republicans just did with the payroll tax cuts. So what is most likely to happen after the November election?

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Obama Holds First News Conference Of 2012

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.06.2012

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WASHINGTON — Amid fresh concerns over the safety of American forces, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the accidental burning of Qurans in ...

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Corporate Tax Rates Effectively Already Below Obama's Proposed Level

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.22.2012

President Obama hopes to bring change to a loophole-ridden corporate tax code that allows potential tax dollars to slip through the cracks. In exchang...

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Congressional Leaders in Super Bowl Move Choose to Let Election Year Politics Burden Our Children

Gary Shapiro | Posted 04.15.2012

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By coming to an agreement to extend the payroll tax cut, leaders from both political parties are destroying our children's future so they can keep their Congressional seats.

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Boehner Expresses Regrets Over Payroll Tax Cut Fight

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 01.18.2012

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Speaker of the House John Boehner admitted Wednesday that his strategy in last year's fight over extending the payroll tax cut was mistaken. "We we...

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The Payroll Tax Cut Extension, the Republicans and Mitt Romney (et al)

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 02.05.2012

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Extending the current payroll tax cut or holiday for another year is critical, even though there are numerous other complementary, and in some ways more effective, stimulus and job-creation initiatives that should be enacted as well.

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White House Ready To Make GOP Pay For $1,000 Failure

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Top officials in the Obama administration on Thursday outlined a major end-of-the-year push to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut,...

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Actually Tax Cuts Don't Seem to Have Much Impact on Economic Growth...

Steven Strauss | Posted 12.25.2011

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Ideology is a poor substitute for pragmatic approaches to complicated problems, and the evidence that tax rates influence economic growth in any way is equivocal at best.

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What Happened to the Republican Party on Taxes?

Jared Bernstein | Posted 12.20.2011

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The Republican Party may revere Ronald Reagan, but they definitely wouldn't recognize each other if they met at a tax policy conference today. Nor would the gipper last for long on the Republicans side of the deficit-reduction super committee.

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White House: No Cabinet Shake-Up Before 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe went on CNN, ABC and Fox News on Sunday to explain President Obama's economic policies. He blam...

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Boehner Blasts Obama's Jobs Plan, Attacks 'Short-Term Gimmicks'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) threw cold water on the prospect of passing President Obama's jobs bill during a speech on Thursday,...

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Uphill From Here: Why US Jobs Policy Will Improve

Stephen Kent | Posted 11.08.2011

Let's hope today goes down in history as the low point of our national debate on jobs, and that it's all uphill from here.

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THEY'RE BACK: Congress Returns, Prepares To Fight Over Key Issues

AP | By JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress spent August listening to constituents describe their economic struggles. This week, the lawmakers return to Washing...

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Democrats To Launch Full-Throated Payroll Tax Cut Extension Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.24.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Setting the stage for a more aggressive posture on taxes and jobs, the Democratic National Committee is launching a campaign to pressure...

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Obama Jobs Plan Meets Early Resistance From Republicans

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 10.21.2011

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Following a few dismal weeks on Wall Street and talk of a double-dip recession, President Obama will soon announce a new jobs plan that is expected to...

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Obama Threatens Bush Tax Cuts As Part Of Debt Ceiling Deal

Posted 10.01.2011

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By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON -– The White House has one important tool in its arsenal to influence congressional talks over further deficit reduc...

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Responding to President Obama on the Art of Compromise

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.24.2011

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Obama's "compromise" principle follows a consistent pattern. His opening bid is to move more than halfway in the direction of Republican principles.

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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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Debunking One Size Fits All

Kristie Arslan | Posted 08.30.2011

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Leaders from both parties are embroiled in the debt drama leaving taxpayers and the financial markets to wonder if there is any hope that Congress can balance our nation's books.

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